[PEN-L:8597] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut

[Rosser Jr, John Barkley]

     But, Robin, what if you have more or less full income 
redistribution.  The individualness of the return can be 
reduced.  The issue is to make sure that what gets produced 
are things that people want, and more or less functioning 
markets will do that to some degree at least.
Barkley Rosser
On Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:29:31 -0800 (PST) Robin Hahnel 
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> 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.

-- 
Rosser Jr, John Barkley
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