Re: The Road to Serfdom

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't believe I've engaged in this argument over market socialism
since the days of the first Spoons marxism list -- and I'm not going to
now. But I have a sort of external observation.

However socialism arrives, if it ever does, not much will change
overnight. So early socialism will be, tautologically, a market
socialism in process. I presume that jumbled market socialism will exist
in a context of high political participation (after all, any socialist
regime will arise, peacefully or violently, out of a mass movement and
the "revolutionizing practice" which such a mass movement implies) --
and _that_ is the context in which it will be possible and necessary to
debate the ways in which "the market" will be modified, transformed,
eliminated, etc. I think it is the nature of the issue that debates on
it at present will just go round and round, see Omar the Tentmaker.

Carrol