> The "planning" characteristic of the USSR and China was not "socialist
> planning" in Marx's sense. The kind of individuality it expressed was
> far from the kind of individuality such planning requires. It was the
> kind expressive of the fetters placed on individual development by the
> peasant social relations characteristic of pre-revolutionary Russia
> and China, relations inconsistent with those required for the
> development of an individuality with the degree of developed
> virtuosity required for the creation of "socialism" in Marx's sense.
Ted, I think I've asked you this before. I'd be thrilled to get an answer. How would we know if we had reached this level of "individuality"? And has anybody reached it yet in human history?
SA