Re: Re: Harry Magdoff on market socialism

[JKSCHW]

Well, if you want socialism to transform humans into a purer sort of creature, maybe 
that is a problem. What I hope for is that socialism would feed the hungry, cloth the 
naked, shelter the unhoused, and make work available to all and reasonably decent for 
many people for whom it is a torment or a deadening bore. If markets socialism would 
do that, but would not transcend sekfishness, would it be worse than capitalism? --jks

In a message dated Fri, 14 Jul 2000  4:35:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Michael 
Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

<< My main complaint about the idea of market socialism is that it does nothing to go 
beyond the sort of incentives that contaminate life in a capitalist economy.  I would 
prefer to take a chance that people can go beyond the limited incentives of 
selfishness that dominate market society.  I
may be wrong, but if so capitalism might even be superior to market socialism.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
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