How about something like this, at least for produce markets: The land is worked in common and the produce stored. People take from the stores according to their needs. Planting will be adjusted according to whether there are shortages or surpluses of products. These are truly free markets that avoid rationing on the basis of price as in conventional free markets. This is along the lines of the sort of thing attempted by Winstanley and the Diggers. Note that production is not a command economy but based upon market demand. Where is the profit motive?
Cheers, Ken Hanly ----- Original Message ----- From: Justin Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 1:00 PM Subject: [PEN-L:27780] Re: Market Socialism - an apology already > >It seems I'm not a market socialist after all, jks. Please forgive my >treachery - I cannot abide the profit motive - I thought a market socialist >believed in the market as a central means of determining economic >development. My mistake. Will read the archives. > >Sé > How can you run markets without a profit motive? jks _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
