Re: Beyond Communism and Capitalism?

[boddhisatva <kbevans@xxxxxxxxx>]

                Mr. Henwood,



        I nearly always agree with your posts, and I'm not sure whether that
trend has hit a blip or not.  You wrote :

        "s money. Accounting translates commodities and social
relations into entries on income and capital statements. This is not
compatible with socialism, which must deal in far more detail with
qualitative matters."

Are you saying that socialists should attend to modifying commerce to attend
to social needs, and leave the rest alone, or make that the defining force in
the economy?  Where does the split between public and private sectors occur
in your thinking?  Clearly socialism is not some advanced form of noblesse
oblige, but a qualitative change in the way business is done.  Is the
socialism that deals with "qualitative matters", a private sector or public
sector socialism?


        Also, are trade shows and bids on 100 million dollar projects part of
"the kinds of spontaneous relations that develop at that micro level?"  Is
agriculture? oil production? timber?   If agriculture why not bread, and if
timber, why not furniture, and if none of these things is appropriate for
centralized planning, where is the planning to take place?


        Capitalists argue that the current macro planning takes place at the
capital markets.  You of all people should have an insight into a way the
heavy hand of capitalism might be slapped aside by the helping hand of
socialism to take, in hand, and by the hand, the invisible hand.



        peace




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