Re: [lbo-talk] Schweickart’s critique of Parecon, “Nonsense on Stilits.”

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Oct 19 09:38:06 PDT 2006


On Oct 19, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Michael Pugliese wrote:


> http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/2006/10/05/economic-democracy-vs-
> parecon-debating-life-after-capitalism/
> What follows is a debate between David Schweickart, author of After
> Capitalism and SolidarityEconomy.net editor, and Michael Albert,
> author of Parecon and founder of Z Magazine. The debate was sparked by
> Schweickart's critique of Parecon, "Nonsense on Stilits."

A fine critique. Parecon seems impossible in both technical and political terms. All that job-complex and consumption planning would take up so much time. Really, who the fuck wants to spend all that time in meetings?

Doug



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