[lbo-talk] Bad Times and the Left

[// ravi]

On Jul 13, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
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> It is not the "system" or "ownership" but the division of labor that
> matters here.  You can create any political system you want and label
> it however you want, but as long as the division of labor remains in
> place - it will make little difference for the management-labor
> relations.  And since nobody has yet found out how a modern economy
> can function without a division of labor, the de facto class society
> is here to stay, revolution or not.  The best thing we can hope for is
> implementing institutions that mitigate this division and reduce the
> excesses.  This is where social democracy comes handy.  The
> Scandinavians obtained quite remarkable results from it.

Brilliantly put! A lucid explication of the paradox confronting a non-expert (such as myself) who is generally sympathetic to Western Leftism.

	—ravi