> I should have made clear that my experience with demands for
> blueprints is that the people making them are usually looking for the
> minute details that they can object to and buttress the yes to
> capitalism they already embrace.
I see what you mean. But that's actually one (minor) reason why blueprint-talk is useful. If someone hostile to the whole project keeps saying, "well, what about this detail? or that detail?" you can always point him in the direction of the blueprint literature and say, "hey, I'm personally not that interested in this stuff, but if you are, you can go read all these people who've given it a lot of thought and have already addressed all your questions. But keep in mind these are just ideas floating around, not a party manifesto."
SA