[lbo-talk] Parecon Discussion...

[Lance Murdoch]

> Painting can be socially valuable -- perhaps it is if you do it -- or
> ridiculous garbage, as it would be if I did it. I could not get a job in
> a good economy -- even in a bad one or a remotely sane one, painting,
> unless it was painting the outside of houses...which I in fact used to
> do.

Isn't the Marxist conception of this based on exchange of labor time?  In 
other words, if you were willing to exchange what you made during your 
time painting with whatever someone else was doing during their time 
working, then this is the basis of the economy now, and can be a basis of 
a future economy.  An example would be a farmer grows food and exchanges 
those commodities with someone who makes clothes.  Both share the 
commodities made during their labor time with each other, it's basically 
an exchange of labor time.

-- Lance