[lbo-talk] The SMB in a socialist economy?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Feb 27 11:09:41 PST 2009


SA wrote:
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> No, the Soviet Union is a perfect test of this sort of thing. If you
> believe abolishing commodity exchange will abolish self-seeking as a
> human motivation

The problem here is that "self-seeking" never has been, and even under capitalism is still not for the most part, a primary source of human motivation. This is an incredibly ahistorical and naive conception of motivation.

Carrol



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