[lbo-talk] 'Nudge' policies are another name for coercion - NewScientist

[Carrol Cox]

// ravi: Was it? I would have thought that most socialist/planned economies
argue that they know how to *achieve* what people want better. There is a
difference between saying “I know what you want” and “I know how to get what
you want", no?
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There has not been a Marxist revolution yet; they were Rousseauist. This is
NOT a criticism. The proletariat for almost two  centuries had to do the
work as it were of the bourgeoisie in overthrowing the Old Regime and
establishing bourgeois "equality." See:

Gáspár Miklós Tamás: Telling the truth about class 
http://www.grundrisse.net/grundrisse22/tellingTheTruthAboutClass.htm

Carrol

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