On Sun, 15 Oct 1995, bill mitchell wrote: > well we are not necessarily discussing market socialism. i was responding to > Louis (who has now taken to writing scripts for a play - should be a > blockbuster i reckon, central character is well formed and pretty darn > interesting!). he was against markets. i wanted to know what was wrong with the > term market if we put it into a perpective that was non-capitalist. that is, if > we eliminate the vertical relations that exist in capitalist LMs, what > remaining objections have we to this idea - a place to shop. My first impulse is to be against `markets' too, but I'd like to see this all laid out, all logical-like. All the cards on the table... Just what _are_ the pros and cons of `market socialism' -- in the simple sense above, FI -- when Surplus Value is not a consideration?? +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | OCTOBER 16 - 22 : TV TURNOFF WEEK | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Jim Jaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Public Key available. | | http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~ab975/Profile.html | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+