Re: The economy - a new era?

[Mike Ballard <swillsqueal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My interpretation of the rise of the corporate form is
that Marx thought it might encourage workers to see
that they were already doing all the work to keep
society going (the capitalists being by then totally
divorced of any productive function) and doing it
co:operatively so why not do it for themselves, "dump
the bosses of their backs" so to speak and control
producton from the bottom up, "soviet" style, without
Party bosses over them.

Regards,
Mike B)

 --- Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:39:46AM -0800, Devine,
> James wrote:
> > there's an old tradition of contrasting "free
> competition" with socialism, as if the
> centralization of capital were the same as
> socialism. Edward Bellamy's "nationalism" (what
> might be called "state socialism" today) was based
> on the idea that the merger of all of the businesses
> into one big cartel would make it easy to
> expropriate capital. Schumpeter also seemed to think
> that the centralization of capital would lead to
> socialism.
> >
> > This view is often merged with the idea that
> statism = socialism, so that any kind of centralism
> = socialism.
>
> --
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
> Chico, CA 95929
>
> Tel. 530-898-5321
> E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

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