Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 07:03:19 -0400 From: LPA <blissett-AT-unpopular.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: economics of communist societies >Bob Miller wrote >> >>Finally, I agree with Harald. Labour time vouchers were a stupid idea. I >>can understand why groups like the GIK came up with them, but that doesn't >>mean that we should consider them today. They would be just another form of >>money and as such would tend to lead to a recreation of exchange and >capitalism. > >The reason why the GIK (Jan Appel) came up with Labour Time vouchers is >because they seriously confronted the problem of the society transitional to >communism. Only fantasists like Subversion and the other subscribers to >this list can wish this problem of transition away. Marx did not view labour >time vouchers as necessary for the fully fledged communist society (although >Harald B seems to think that this was the case). Furthermore Marx stated >that labour time vouchers were personal and therefore non-exchangable so >they would not lead to accumulation of anything. If you are going to >criticise revolutionaries from the past like the GIK or Marx you could at >least do them the courtesy of reading carefully what they said and >understanding why they said it. > >Jock (CWO) guesting with Mauro. I am confused. In correspondence with the CWO, they rather patronisingly suggested that my rejection of Bolshevism was because I had "swallowed hook line and sinker the bourgeoise's message of nasty organisation and nasty bolsheviks" yet here Jock is describing the the GIK as revolutionaries. I am presently working on an electronic version of the GIK's "Theses on Bolshevism" which was also published as "The Bourgeois Role of Bolshevism". I thought that CWO was one of those proto-party organisations that prided itself on its political homogenity. Please clarify Luther Blissett http://www.unpopular.demon.co.uk http://www.dsnet.it/qwerg/blissett/bliss0.htm http://www.skatta.demon.co.uk --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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