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In the early 1970s when I was an undergraduate student in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, I asked another young socialist who I thought had read more: “What is socialism?” We were sitting in a cafe having breakfast. While holding up his glass of orange juice to his mouth he declared: “In socialism, everyone will have orange juice from the faucet!”
When I think about that short conversation today, I feel my friend’s vision of socialism perhaps was colored more by the long wave of capitalist prosperity, the Golden Age of capitalism that began after the end of World War II and ended with the world recession of 1973-75, than the Marxian premise that ever-higher productivity of labor provides the material basis for socialism.
full: http://forhumanliberation.blogspot.com/2018/06/2942-capiatlism-automation-and.html
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