Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 13:04:48 -0600
From: lennymo-AT-casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Lenny Moss)
Subject: Re: HAB: Habermas, Merging and the Working Class



>How does Habermas construe power?  It's related systematically to distorted
>communication, right?  But what about distorted economics?
>


Habermas continue's to see much relevance in Marxist political-economic
prognoses but he doesn't believe that the market can be replaced by
planning due to problems of complexity. Democratically articulated popular
will must set boundary conditions upon market forces and beaucratic
mechanisms by way of a healthy public sphere and legitimate law.

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Lenny Moss
   Department of Philosophy
   Northwestern University