[lbo-talk] Why Capitalism Cannot be Tamed

[Somebody Somebody]

Alan: You're claiming that variants of capitalist competitive individualism are qualitatively different and have more differences than their collective distance from anarchocommunalism, agrarian populism, feudalism or (whatever picture we each have in our head of) a liveable socialism. 

Somebody: When did Wojtek say this exactly? He simply argued you're unable to explain the differences generated by the same general ideals and economic order.

It's interesting to me that you'd even raise the issue of the collective distance between capitalism and a "picture we each have in our head" of socialism. Unfortunately, despite vast amounts of empirical data on the actually existing socialisms  of the 20th century, we still get abstract discussions like this.