Re: "Socialist command type economy in Iraq"????

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L] "Socialist command type economy in Iraq"????

Ian:
> > Would it not be more accurate to say that even the manner in which
> > individuals appropriate wealth is socially decided upon?

me:
> "societies" don't decide anything, so how can something be "socially decided
> upon"? The society we live under -- capitalism -- is inherited from the
> past, from a series of historical struggles between classes and within
> classes, affected by other social structures such as patriarchy and
> ethnicity along with unique historical events (it's not like someone decided
> to set it up). This system involves generally-accepted "rules" (often
> broken) about "the manner in which individuals appropriate wealth."

Ian:
I didn't write *societies*, I wrote *socially.* Is the legislature and the
courts a set of social-deliberative/decision making institution or not?

the legislature and courts are also a product of the social system (including the property rights system), which does not deliberate.

Jim