[lbo-talk] a post-capitalist future

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
> Some anarchists have proposed what they describe
> as alternative technologies, or what Murray Bookchin
> liked to call "liberatory technology" which would
> presumably bring the benefits of modern technology
> to small scale production.  These proposals are
> certainly not without merit, but we are still
> stuck with the fact that there are lots of things
> that we depend upon which cannot, at the present
> time, being produced efficiently except by means
> of relatively centralized production systems.

Exactly my point when I talked in a recent thread about the IT / Tech
sector and put AMD's $2.5 billion semiconductor factory in Dresden,
Germany as an example of things governments should do in a socialist
world, as low-scale cooperatives cannot afford that kind of R+D and
mass production....

Certainly low-scale cooperatives can do system assembly and
customization, but not large scale chip production...
FC