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

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 20 08:13:46 PDT 2006


On 10/19/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> 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?

The complaint about the meetings (and yes, they suck) sounds like, "I want to have communal control over my destiny, but only if it's not too much trouble." Maybe that's just realism.

-- Andy



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