Albert & Hahnel or Marx & Engels?

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Wed Jan 29 12:08:51 PST 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "joanna bujes" <joanna.bujes at sun.com>


> At 12:01 PM 01/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >About on a par with so called "market socialism". That isn't
> >socialism either, socialism is the social ownership and control of
> >the means of production. Market socialism entails theoretical common
> >ownership of the means of production, but the practical control of it
> >would be by private co-operatives operating in competition. So
> >obviously the community interests would play second fiddle to the
> >private interests of whoever happens to be dependant on the
> >co-operatives for their income. The distinction between this and
> >capitalism is mostly imaginary.
>
>
> GO BILL!!!!
>
> Joanna
>

=================

Some people need to go read the Legal Realists on the public-private distinction.

Sheeeesh.

Ian



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list