raghu wrote:
If I understand you correctly you are saying KM *predicted* (rather than advocated) that some form of "a worker-managed centralized economy" would evolve from the natural progression of capitalism?
it was a _conditional_ prediction. Capitalism created the opportunity for some form of "a worker-managed centralized economy." But in order for that opportunity to be realized, the workers had to organize and develop class consciousness. As part of this, the details are filled in by the workers themselves. Louis wrote:
> As far as "alternative systems" are concerned, Marx had little interest in > discussing them and me even less.
raghu:
What is wrong with discussing "alternative systems"?
Marx wasn't into developing utopias, among other things because there was a glut of them at the time he wrote. (There were also major theoretical, tactical, and strategic differences.) However, we don't have to restrict ourselves to what Marx did or said. (BTW, Louis doesn't say that we should restrict ourselves in the quote above.) -- Jim Devine / "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." -- Bertolt Brecht
