In her book "Arguments for a New Left" Hilary Wainright had what I thought was an interesting take on this issue. HW argued that while there was something to the Austrian critique of socialism and government action, namely that even if nominally democratic government action was limited by the limited ability of government to match the knowledge of individuals, still this problem is and could be addressed by social movements which also produce knowledge. HW gives some examples from Euro left social movements. Shades of cybernetics and anarcho-syndicalism... > 1) German liberalism > by Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:48:44 -0500 > From: Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: German liberalism > Message-ID: <l03102801af812aef59f1@[166.84.250.86]> > >(2) In his book on Foucault, James Miller says that > Foucault developed, late in his life, a serious sympathy in Austrian > economics and English liberalism as limits to state power, and strategies > for maximizing the play of individual "will" (spectres of Nietzsche....). > > Doug ___________________________________ Robert Naiman 1821 W. Cullerton Chicago Il 60608-2716 (h) 312-421-1776 (here there is voice mail) Urban Planning and Policy (M/C 348) 1007 W. Harrison Room 1180 Chicago, Il 60607-7137 (o) 312-996-2126 (here there is voice mail also) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icarus.uic.edu/~rnaima1/
