>You must not have been here for the discussion a few months ago when JKS, Carroll and Yoshie pretty much constituted themselves a three person army attacking the idea that a significant coordinator class existed - with plenty of reinfocement from others.
People who have to co-ordinate as part of their job, or their life, exist of course. But the assertion that they constitute a separate class under capitalism, in the same way that the working class and the capitalist class do, is an assertion that calls for a clear definition. A clear definition has been asked for, but has not been provided.
On the other hand I admit the danger of a co-ordinator class emerging as the ruling class in an economic system like the one proposed, where the ruling capitalist class has been eliminated. In fact the proposed safeguards are quite inadequate to safeguard against it, because they go strongly against the grain.
The advocates of Parecon choose to simply ignore the fundamental flaw in its design. There cannot be a ruled class without a ruling class. No matter how many safeguards you put in place trying to equally share the responsibility of rule equally amongst everyone, it is inevitable that such political and economic power over other people cannot be equally shared. Some people are better at acquiring and exercising it than others.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas