Re: robin hahnel's new book

["michael a. lebowitz" <mlebowit@xxxxxx>]

At 12:17 02/03/2005, you wrote:
> Robin Hahnel:
> > After explaining why capitalism, central planning, and market socialism
> > are all incapable of providing economic justice and democracy, and after
> > examining why both social democracy and libertarian socialism failed to
> > sustain the cause of equitable cooperation, permitting the economics of
> > competition and greed to dominate the last quarter of the twentieth
> > century, a coherent set of economic institutions and procedures that can
> > deliver economic justice and democracy, while protecting the environment
> > and promoting efficiency, is carefully spelled out.
>
> What the hell is libertarian socialism?

Libertarian socialism must mean that you retain 'to each according to one's
contribution' as your (limited) concept of economic justice, which is
Robin's position,  so it would be good to know how Robin distinguishes his
position from that./m

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