Re: The Road to Serfdom

[Mike Ballard <swillsqueal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- andie nachgeborenen
<andie_nachgeborenen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- "Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > JKS refers to > the well worn territory of how
> > markets are BAD<
> >
> > actually, my understanding is that (except for
> Mike
> > B), the main trend of the anti-"market socialism"
> > side was not  that markets are "BAD." (Could you
> > name someone who says that markets are evil?)
>
> Right here, right now, Mike Ballard.
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Hi Jim and Andie,

Just to be clear and without religious overtone: I
don't think that markets are evil.  I think that we
need to realize that we (who are not capitalists) are
the market and the producers.

I think that exchange-value needs to be stripped away
from use-value and disgarded.  I think that it has now
been historically demonstrated that commodity
production/consumption undermines any attempt to
achieve socialism.  I think that wage-labour has
outlived its usefulness for humankind.  I think that
commodity production is inherently alienating, always
leading away from social ownership of the means of
production, self-management and towards the
continuation of hierarchical-political power over the
producers.

Best,
Mike B)


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