Re: Peter Dorman and Robin Hahnel (fwd)

[JKSCHW]

In a message dated 6/20/00 6:21:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<< Regarding Hahnel, I may call him progressive, but what he challenges is
 not terribly clear to me, especially his attack at Marx in the name of
 participatory economics.. Like Dorman, he does *not* openly use the words
 socialism or Marxism in his critique of market capitalism. I would tend to
 describe him institutionalist, liberal reformist or social libertarian,
 but not Marxist per se. >>

RH is an anti-Marxist, and quite clear about this. Why one has to be a 
Marxist to challenge capitalism I do not understand. RH has the most credible 
planning alternative to capitalsim around, not that I think that is worth 
much. What your string of useless adjectives, "institutionalist, liberal 
reformist or social libertarian," might maen excrept that RHis not really 
"one of us" and not to be quite trusted, I don't know. Of course I am a 
pretty poor excuse for a Marxist myself, being a pro-market liberal democrat. 
--jks