> Answer all these questions in some detail, and then we can start
> talking about what the new regime would start to do on (say) Day 3 of
> the new socialist order.
>
At the risk of this thread wearing out its welcome, let me try this.....
On Day 3, the new regime would be facing conditions we have no way of predicting. But it will *also* be facing problems that we have been dealing with for centuries - problems of production, allocation, economic calculation, division of labor, etc. When they start addressing these problems, the actors in the regime will *necessarily* - *inevitably* - *inescapably* be basing their actions on the stock of ideas that they have inherited from the past about these age-old problems. There is no tabula rasa. They will never be making decisions based solely on immediate conditions. They will have no choice but to make use of theory, and therefore they will be using someone's theory, theory from the past. Opening these theoretical questions to democratic debate in advance means the movement gets to influence - though never determine - what is done when the time comes. Close off the debate until Day 3 arrives and you're opening the door to several kinds of mischief.
SA