Please forgive my laziness, but I'm trying to map parecon onto what I already know (or think I know) and then decide how much I want to look into it... so for now I just have one question. For me (and, I think, Marx) an exploitive class structure is one in which the direct producers (workers) do not appropriate and decide how to distribute the surplus that they produce. I assume that parecon is supposed to be a non-exploitive class system/society. By my definition, such a society is one in which the workers collectively appropriate and decide what to do with the surplus. Is parecon, as you have developed it, consistent with my definition of a non-exploitive class structure? If so, where, and how?
Thanks much for taking the time to field these questions.
Cliff
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