File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_1997/aut-op-sy.9708, message 154


From: "FRANCO BARCHIESI" <029FRB-AT-cosmos.wits.ac.za>
Date:          Tue, 26 Aug 1997 09:48:18 GMT + 2:00
Subject: AUT: Re: mesa1a-1/3-comments


Monty,

Thanks *a lot* for the comments on the Encuentro. I am now working to 
a structured reply. For the moment, just a quick point for clarity. 
You wrote:

> Franco said in his report on Madrid mesa 1a/b is accurate (posted on
> CapitolHill site) that some of the Europeans viewed alternative economics as
> inherently too cooptable but argued that the use of time freed from work for
> capital can be used to develop alternative cultural and social spaces. I find
> this formulation very questionable. It appears to be Eurocentric and not
> listening to the issues as raised in the "south."

Actually, when I put this point in my report, I did not want to
load it with any value judgement. The point about alternative
economies as cooptable (that I do not agree with at all), was raised
at El Indiano when we of the Madrid submesa met with the Barcelona
comrades to define a common position for the whole mesa to submit
to the final plenary. It happened that, when we read the document
from our submesa which *supported* alternative economics, Barcelona
comrades (Italians in particular) objected that there is no
alternative economy that is not, as such, cooptable by capitalism.
Our final position had then to register a disagreement between the
Barcelona and Madrid submesas on this point. But, I repeat, that is
not *my* position. I rather agree with your criticism of
eurocentrism and with most of what has been said at the Encounter by
Latin American comrades on this issue. I am sorry if my report could
create misunderstandings on this point.

Hasta siempre,

Franco

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