> SA wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
What a convenient way of deflecting a post that attacked the premise of everything you've written about capitalism and socialism: i.e., that getting rid of capitalism = waving a magic wand, whereupon all the constraints, flaws, and shortcomings of hitherto-existing society are swept away as if by divine intervention. To take an example from a previous post of yours, after the revolution plastic-dollmaking in Guatemala will supposedly no longer "change the meaning" of flour-milling in Singapore. I'm not sure how that's supposed to happen. (In fact, I'm not sure what that meant in the first place.) But it certainly smacks of magical thinking.
SA