Re: Computers and socialism

[Louis N Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Every time I get a post from boddhisatva,

           I find myself reading every word because he

                   has a unique graphics style like Wired magazine.

           However, when you read the content of his messages, you

get a similar impression: There's not much substance beneath the style.


Louis

On Fri, 19 Jan 1996, boddhisatva wrote:

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>               Mr. Proyect,
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>       The answers:  Yes we need at least 500 companies selling widgets, or
> as many as can make a living at it.  NO, it is not silly to sell things on
> TV.  It's called commerce.  You can sneer at it, but it pays the bills - or
> would pay the bills if we weren't paying speculators and giving them rights
> over our work.
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>       I may have internalized a lot of Madison  Avenue, but, somehow I
> think that the appeal of socialism HAS to be more economic autonomy, not
> less.  As brilliant as the leaders of the revolution may be, they will not be
> smart enough for me to trust with total economic domination.  At least the
> capitalists are divided and don't have the formal power of the state at their
> disposal.
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>       I insist that socialism is not the "better mousetrap" that the elite
> can inflict on the working man, but democracy, pure, plain, ugly,
> corn-dog-eatin', monster-truck-pull, democracy, in its highest form (nearly).
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>       peace
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