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 Franco Barchiesi Sociology of Work Unit Dept of Sociology University of the Witwatersrand Private Bag 3 PO Wits 2050 Johannesburg South Africa Tel. (++27 11) 716.3290 Fax (++27 11) 716.3781 E-Mail 029frb-AT-cosmos.wits.ac.za http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/aut_html http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~mshalev/direct.htm Home: 98 6th Avenue Melville 2092 Johannesburg South Africa Tel. (++27 11) 482.5011 --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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