[lbo-talk] Parecon Discussion...

Shane Taylor s-t-t at juno.com
Tue Sep 23 07:48:08 PDT 2003



> How does parecon propose to avoid the creation of a
> coordinator class?

Michael Albert wrote:
> We can't avoid it being creating -- because it already
> exists. The issue is not having a post capitalist economy
> that it rules -- and, better still, having it disappear
> in such an economy.
>
> That means having institutions that don't create
> a division between one set of economic actors who
> monopolize empowering tasks, and another who
> do virtually entirely rote and obedient and at least
> not empowering tasks.

What are empowering tasks? What distinguishes them from those which aren't?

-- Shane

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