Re: [Pen-l] Paul Davidson sums up

[Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 18:52:18 (-0800) John Vertegaal writes:
>Carrol Cox wrote:
>> 
>> Jim Devine wrote:
>>>
>>> nor did Marx say anything about central planning (that I know of).
>>> --
>> 
>> I think we have to go to evolutionary psychology to get a gene that
>> automatically screams "central planning won't work" every time they hear
>> the word Marx. 
>> 
>> Carrol
>> 
>Although it's far from me to defend Davidson in all of this, given the 
>above indicated disconnect between Marxism and central planning, how 
>then are Marx's ideas to be implemented economically? In other words it 
>would be nice to see you put your money where your mouth is. Or is it 
>all hot air?

I don't see how it's all that complicated.  We have currently
organizations called corporations that run the economic world.  Why is
it so hard to see them transformed (as, I believe, Marx envisioned)
into mechanisms controlled not by the wealthy rapacious few, but by
broader, more catholic institutions?


Bill

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