[lbo-talk] how a non-market economy would work - WAS Re: socialistresponse to hayek

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 1 11:47:32 PDT 2009


So, this is kind of like how, because I have no way of knowing the precise circumstances of any future fire I might be in, I therefore never think about what to do if I am ever in a fire?

--- On Wed, 4/1/09, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> For one thing, we have absolutely no idea whatever of what
> will be the
> conditions (and the prior history) under which a socialist
> movement
> would achieve power, and those unknowable conditions,
> including the
> preceding years of struggle within a vulnerable capitalist
> regime, would
> totally determine the range of options open to the members
> of that
> embryonic society. To even guess at those conditions is to
> claim
> possession of a crystal ball.
>
> Carrol
>
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