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This is so tiresome. Here for the 100th time is someone who's ecstatic at having found the "solution" to the socialist calculation problem (although it's clear from his article he hasn't followed that problem very closely): all we need is the help of the market, for both big issues (climate change) and small! Frase sets up a straw man by critiquing the admittedly clunky "parecon" system. But he says nothing about such concepts as "articulated self-management" (Mandel) in which decisions are made at the lowest level possible, and at every level are the subject of debate in a democratically-elected council. And most irritatingly, he says nothing about the technology available to facilitate such planning, for instance computers used by logistics behemoths like Wa-Mart to PLAN in a non-market fashion restocking shelves, warehouse storage, distribution costs, etc., data which then is available to production bodies (see Joe Allen's articles on that). Nor does he say anything about the consumption choices made every day by millions of people on Amazon and similar sites -- all of which are potential inputs for a nonmarket, democratic planned analysis. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/voting-democracy-socialism-representation/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
