I don't remember Sweezy on this, but Chomsky has made this point often. I think Chomsky deprecates the role of experts too much on occasion; something need not be a science to include roles that require expertise, but that is another issue and part of why I have drifted further away from anarchism, and closer to Marxism.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Sometime in the last 40 years Paul Sweezy wrote an article in which he > explained why socialism could not be a science. > > He argued that whatever else socialism was, it had to be a democracy. But > science is the realm of expertise, and to hold that socialism was a science > was to deny the one essential feature of socialism. > > I don't remember the date or the title of the article, and Sweezy made > the point rather better than I am making it here. > > Can anyone identify the source. > > Carrol > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com
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