Marx, Brenner, Technology (Was Re: [lbo-talk] preferences)

joand315 joand315 at ameritech.net
Fri Sep 19 18:43:47 PDT 2003


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> At 12:19 AM -0500 9/19/03, joand315 wrote:
>
>>>> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> An increasing number of intellectuals, technical workers, etc.
>>>>> begin to emigrate. What should the new socialist government do?


>>>> Start sending misbehaving tech workers to Siberia?
>>>>
>>>> Chuck0


>>> Presumably, LBO-talk technophiles don't want to shoot deserting
>>> soldiers and send intellectuals and tech workers to Siberia. What's
>>> their solution?


>> Workers' cooperatives.


> Workers' cooperatives don't take away incentives to save ones' own lives
> and families from a civil war or to emigrate to richer nations, though.

Civil wars are more likely when much of the population is out of work. -joan



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