Quoth Michael,
>Can't say I'm a very happy left social democrat, but in the
>absence, of a mass, radical democratic left, I'll take working in the less
>reality impaired precincts of the social democratic swamp.
Well, at least I'm not as lonely a creature as I'd thought! Sad
left-soc-dems of th
Commiserations, Jim! You're too bloody talented to stay out in the cold for
long, I know.
But I'd been enjoying those LM e-mails ...
All the very best, comrade!
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Michael P writes:
>Can't say I'm a very happy left social democrat,
Why ever not?
>but in the absence, of a mass, radical democratic left, I'll take working
>in the >less reality impaired precincts of the social democratic swamp.
Try draining it.
>At least they have read and thought and organ
Just a quickie while I watch Australia play the Czecg Republic (the latter
lead 1-0 just after half-time in a cracking good match),
Thinking about Hugh and Doug's latest posts, it occurs to me that market
socialism may actually play a part in the mass mobilisation process itself
(should one come
Whatta riot! Over on the DSA listserv, Doug is castigated as a "left
authoritarian", here by Hugh Snodwell, as not a Bolshevik.
The more I hang out in left cyberspace, the more I think, the left has so
much more sloughing off the dogmatic formulaic, wanna be Party apparatchiks
ala Hugh et. a
>Hugh Rodwell wrote:
>
>>If market socialism is such an attractive alternative, and vastly to be
>>preferred to party dicatatorships, and capable of arising more or less
>>spontaneously in periods of mass mobilization, then why
>>
>>a) did it not arise spontaneously in the wake of the collapse of
Hugh Rodwell wrote:
>If market socialism is such an attractive alternative, and vastly to be
>preferred to party dicatatorships, and capable of arising more or less
>spontaneously in periods of mass mobilization, then why
>
>a) did it not arise spontaneously in the wake of the collapse of the Sov
If market socialism is such an attractive alternative, and vastly to be
preferred to party dicatatorships, and capable of arising more or less
spontaneously in periods of mass mobilization, then why
a) did it not arise spontaneously in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet
Union, either there or
Youse might like to skim my article on planning/market
called 'Marxism Deformed: the default into market socialism' which
is on my webpage www.geocities.com/davebedggood. tho its now
a few years old. I just mention it.
Dave
On 28 Mar 00, at 18:00, Hugh Rodwell wrote:
> Rob huffs and puffs a bi
