File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-01-21.060, message 5


Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 12:36:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin-AT-utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: planning please


On planning versus markets.

One of the underdeveloped problematics in these posts is the assumption
that personal wants and needs are individually produced, and therefore it
follows from this that markets offer the best mechanism for delivering on
this atomistic consumptive behavior. This completely ignores the reality
that human needs and wants are socially produced. Markets today are
inducements to consumption to maintain profit levels, not production
meeting naturally-occurring wants and needs. Therefore a key assumption
(perhaps *the* key assumption) underpinning the market argument is derived
>from neoclassical political economic theory and is most certainly
fallacious. This boiling the individuals out of their historical and
social context is the worst sort of political economic analysis. It is
pure ideology.

Andrew Austin




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