Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:29:43 +0200
From: Ilan Shalif <gshalif-AT-netvision.net.il>
Subject: Re: AUT: ParEcon


Grinding the old ax ;)
Harald Beyer-Arnesen wrote:
> 
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> From: "Ilan Shalif" <gshalif-AT-netvision.net.il>
> To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
> Sent: 25. februar 2003 13.29
> Subject: Re: AUT: ParEcon
> 
> > Harald Beyer-Arnesen wrote:
> > >
> > Me again with the old ax....
> >
> > Harald take the Parecon too seriously.
> 
> Actually, I could not agree more with your general
> remarks on Parecon, Ilan. I could add one more devasting
> critique. Parcon, apart from all the rest, immediately
> strikes me as boring.
>
It is mostly boring as it try to cover with lot of "technical"
jargon the basic premises it is built on.

It is based - like the cooperative and syndicalist models
on the adoption of the individualist-egoist principles of the capitalist
ideology - false claims about the human nature even scientific
psychology refuted long ago.

It is of the kind of claim that people will not get up and go to work
if no specific compensation will be given to them.

It is based on he ignorance that social desirability, solidarity
and other pro social components of the human nature are secondary
in weight than the individualistic-egoistic ones.

Even the research about the evolution of animals and humans
revealed the importance of the "altruistic element".

The fact that not only pro capitalists but even fascists and religious 
fundamentalists did just that when they are/were members of communes in Israel
is clear refutation to that.

Lot of people who had no socialist ideology of any kind, behaved like
every libertarian communist when joined communes for all the wrong
reasons...... (married a commune member, problems of single parents, 
immigration etc.) 
> 
> Still, it might not be bad with a more in-dept critique out
> there, as quite a few persons seem to fall for Parecon.
> Even if I would also agree in that this attraction has more
> fundamental roots.
> 
I think the only criticism worthy of writing on Parecon is
in order to expose the reasons their model is in contradiction 
with the libertarian communist model.

Ilan
> Harald
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