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On Sep 18, 2014, at 9:41 PM, Jim Farmelant via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > …Trotsky presented one argument that has always struck me as being rather > Hayekian in tone. > > […] > > "If a universal mind existed, of the kind that projected itself into the > scientific fancy of Laplace – a mind that could register simultaneously all > the processes of nature and society, that could measure the dynamics of their > motion, that could forecast the results of their inter-reactions – such a > mind, of course, could a priori draw up a faultless and exhaustive economic > plan, beginning with the number of acres of wheat down to the last button for > a vest. The bureaucracy often imagines that just such a mind is at its > disposal… Hasn’t technology now come very close to resolving this problem? ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
