Re: The economy - a new era?

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Didn't Engels say that the worst time for a bad government is when it
first tries to do good.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:12:44PM +0300, Jeff Sommers wrote:
> You have to be careful with this.  Gorbachev tried it with disastrous
> results, of course, however, in highly specific historical context.  Workers
> voted for management offering more pay when production was declining and
> hoarding already pandemic.  To paraphrase Sam Huntington, from his
> Trilateral Commission report "The Crisis of Democracy," there are times when
> democracy does not help.  Conversely, the Latvian Riflemen would be an
> example of workers (in this case soldiers) effectively running and electing
> managers (officers).  They successfully staved of the Whites and foreign
> interventions until the Red Army, based on an entirely different, and
> undemocratic model, was created....
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> Jeff
>
> on 2/12/04 21:42, Doug Henwood at dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Michael Perelman wrote:
> >
> >> Marx represents an important boys in that tradition.  He believed that
> >> the rise of the corporate form would provide the basic infrastructure
> >> for a socialist society.  This part of his work, of course, conflicted
> >> with the other part that promotes socialism from below.
> >
> > Not really - if shareholders could hire managers, why not the workers?
> >
> > Doug

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