Re: [A-List] Costs and Benefits of Economic Alternatives

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> In other words, to struggle for socialism is to struggle to have
> certain benefits at certain costs, not to struggle to have all
> benefits one might want at no cost.  People have to understand the
> trade-off, and for them to understand it, we have to have honest
> discussion and detailed examination of political economy under all its
> historical and present varieties.

This is a highly academic approach to politics. Have you reconsidered a 
new foray into graduate school? I am sure that this would be a very 
feasible topic for a PhD in political science. My wife just needs one 
more signature for her dissertation and she graduates. She compared 
Marxism and other disciplines on case studies involving financial crises 
in order to answer the question of whether the US is declining or not. I 
am sure that you would find this type of topic more interesting than 
literature.