<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1226" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=878343121-24092003><FONT face="Courier New">Michael,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=878343121-24092003><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=878343121-24092003><FONT face="Courier New">Thanks again for your effort ( and sacrifice ) to explain your ideas to us.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=878343121-24092003><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=878343121-24092003><FONT face="Courier New">Is it possible for you to give us a comparison/contrast between parecon and Marx's ( I dare not say "a Marxist") vision of a better economy than capitalism, how we get from capitalism to such an economy, etc. ? Do you have a theory of history, human nature, anthropolgy and the like ? Were pre-class societies parecons ?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=878343121-24092003><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=878343121-24092003><FONT face="Courier New">Charles</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>