I could scarcely disagree more. The level of agricultural production achievable under feudal social relations would mean the starvation of a large part of the world population to say nothing about the appalling social oppression it would involve. Discussion of planned economy is not a side issue. If one is to propose a progressive alternative to the market economy we have now, it is the only viable alternative. Right wing economics have spent 40 years or more rubbishing the whole idea for very clear political motives. If progressive economists do not defend it, then we concede Thatcher's claim 'There Is No Alternative'.
Paul Cockshott School of Computer Science University of Glasgow http://glasgow.academia.edu/paulcockshott http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/staff/williamcockshott/#tabs=0 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox Sent: 21 January 2014 00:08 To: 'Progressive Economics' Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Why Marxists consider a planned economy in accord with human nature Arguments for or against a "planned economy" are politically irrelevant. They are merely so much pedantry. Capitalism is plunging us (has plunged us) into barbarism. A return to feudalism would be vastly preferable from the point of view of human survival. We need to destroy capitalism, struggling to achieve a new democracy. We can't lay down the law of what that democracy can or will or should doi. Carrol "Marxists have no crystal ball." Mao _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
