Re: Job flight

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

dsquared@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Inputs and outputs, though.  I certainly wouldn't want
> to live in a precapitalist economy or in most forms of
> Actually Existing Socialism,

After Marx returned from a vacation in Germany in which he had been well
entertained by some friends in the aristocracy there, someone asked him
how, given many of his enjoyments, he would be able to live in a
socialist society. His reply: I'll be dead by then.

The same same principle applies to thought about living in a
pre-capitalist society. There is no way we can judge how people born
into another mode of life would evaluate that mode of life.

That's one reason socialists should for the most part emphasize the
negative in their agitation and propaganda. Guesses about what will be
"good" in the future are mostly sort of silly. But we can know with
intensity what is not to be tolerated in the present.

Carrol