Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:09:10 -0500
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Re: M-I: Cooperatives?


You know, another problem with cooperatives is that they take too much damn
time. This is a variant on Wilde's famous quip about socialism involving
too many meetings. Or Nancy Folbre's characterization of the Albert/Hahnel
utopia, which sounded to her like life as "one long student council
meeting." We can bemoan passivitity & alienation, but a lot of people just
want to forget the job and go home at night. It's may be hard to energize
the masses with the promise of only more work.

Or am I being too pessimistic?

Doug

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