[lbo-talk] Response to Criticisms of ParEcon (Relayed from the LBO Listserv)

[cuito61 at onebox.com]

“Nancy Folbre ... said their vision of life was as one long student council meeting.” (Doug Henwood)

If Nancy has said this, she has, to my knowledge, not published it. What she has said in writing (Z Magazine, July/August 1991) is she worries that a participatory economy would be susceptible to “the Dictatorship of the Sociable” and the “Let’s not Piss Anybody Off” principle. Albert and I responded to both her criticisms in that same issue of Z Magazine, and on re-reading, I’ll stand by our response. In a nut shell we said:

http://www.zmag.org/ParEcon/writings/hahnelanwers.htm