Re: Beyond Communism and Capitalism?

[Scott Marshall <Scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis:
>I was won over to socialism in the same year I first became a computer
>programmer. I always used to stress to comrades that it seemed that
>computers (in those days, IBM 360's) made socialism objectively
>possible for the first time in history. If nothing else, this conviction has
>only deepened even while bureaucratic socialism has entered into crisis
>or disappeared.
>
>I think that Lenin's claim is as true as ever if it is modified in the
>following manner: "Capitalism has simplified the work of accounting
>and control, has reduced it to a comparatively simple system of
>bookkeeping, that any literate person can do with a computer."

Where is Paul Cockshott on this - it's his meat and potatoes and pixels! He
sure convinced me that socialist planning is now more feasible than ever.

Scott



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