I have been too busy to respond to recent postings on market "socialism" but would like to say that one reason I reject market socialism as my vision of a desirable economy is that it does NOT help us develop our capacities for solidarity and cooperation, but rather whets our invidious and acquisitive "instincts" in Veblen's old terms. In other words, it is destructive, rather than constructive of a "socialist" ideology -- though I no longer care whether we use the word "socialist" to stand for economic democracy, equity, solidarity, and conscious cooperation.
