Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: entrepreneurs

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Henwood wrote:

> Jim Devine wrote:
>
> >Further, if people attain what Aristotle called "true happiness" and
> >Marx might term "disalienation," we'd be _less_ needy.
>
> How do you know that? Are you now or have you ever been disalienated?

All the evidence that I know of establishes pretty clearly
that people tend to be content wtih what they have unless
some agency actively discontents them. They measure themselves
against those around them, and if there are no painful differences,
they prefer to gossip or loaf rather than getting more.

That doesn't, however, speak to the problems that may or
will appear during a transition from a capitalist to some other
sort of social arrangement -- except for the fact that such
a transition, if it occurs, will emerge only from a period of great
chaos and hardship, including great violence.

Socialists, of course, should push for peaceful transition -- the
capitalists will guarantee the collapse into violence.

Carrol