Re: RE: capitalist versus socialist progress

[Jim Devine]

Nathan writes:
>Questions raised are whether there are ways to better encorporate such
>qualitative measures into state planning.  I would argue that without
>democracy as an alternative "feedback" loop to the market, undemocratic
>state planning must by nature ultimately fail.

well phrased! BTW, Trotsky made a similar point after he'd been kicked out 
of power.

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