Re: Beyond Communism and Capitalism?

[Louis N Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 20 Jan 1996 glevy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
> Bob Heilbroner is a social democrat, not a "left-liberal."
>

Louis:
I stand corrected. Although, what this means in practical political terms
I have no idea. Irving Howe, another "social democrat", supported the war
in Vietnam while a left-liberal like Dr. Spock opposed it. Labels like
this don't go very far. My beef with Heilbroner is his statement in the
foreword that "Socialisms therefore constitute a kind of ongoing
experiment to discover what sorts of arrangements might repair the damage
wrought by the existing social order." If this his is idea of socialism,
then we will always have the capitalist system to contend with.

> What is Magdoff afraid of? I've seen _MR_ review many other works which
> are at least as "far-removed from the political framework of MR." I don't
> see how a decision not to review the _Dissent_ book is anything that we
> should applaud.
>

Louis: I misquoted Magdoff. What he said was the following:

"Our perspective on the issues raised in the book is so different from
that of the contributors that a proper treatment of the subject would
require the kind of major essay we are not able to undertake at this time."


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