Dmytri Kleiner wrote:
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> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> > Right. It's called market discipline.
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> However, harsh discipline is not a unique feature of Capitalism nor is
> it essential to it.
Your post is irrelevant to _market_ discipline. The discipline is that if you lose your job, and can't get another, you end up on the streets. No one is talking about the kind of direct "discipline" you seem to have in mind (orders enforced by coercion). Capitalism in principle (not in practice) eliminates direct coercion. No one is forced to work. They just starve if they don't. If by State Capitalism you mean the USSR, they did pretty much eliminate market discipline -- that is, no one ever got fired. And they did have good social services. Hence they did have to resort to coercion often.
Carrol