On Nov 22, 2004, at 11:53 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> We don't need to think up anything new: if you need a positive
> description of how socialism works, look at the funding of public
> libraries, university research, credit unions, open-source software,
> etc. Many working models. Why the hand-wringing here?
These are all models in rather small fields. Can they be generalized to a whole society, or major parts of it? For example, could the entire agriculture and food processing industry, on which we depend for what we put in our mouths, be operated by control by "the people"? What would that look like, exactly? What changes would happen in the way this industry happens now?
I'm not agreeing with the opponents of socialism; I'm looking for good counter-arguments.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org _____________________________ "Simply by being human we do not have a common bond. For all we share with all other humans is the same thing we share with all other animals -- the ability to feel pain." -- Richard Rorty