Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:44:38 -0500 (EST) From: Kevin Cabral <kcabral-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us> Subject: Re: M-I: Ernest Mandel on Soviet Planning On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Jason A Schulman wrote: > I do want to ask the left-wing "market socialists" on this list a > question (even though to some extent it's already been answered). Does > your vision of socialism picture the market, and private (co-operative) > ownership and interest, as the *fundamental engine* of the economy, or do > you have *social, collective* ownership and control taking the driver's > seat? The market and collective enterprise is the foundation of the economy, but it's engine maintains a signifigant amount of indicative investment planning because the central banks control and direct investment centrally to existing firms, or to create new ones. Also planning will exist that does not take the form of investment within a market context; for example the government will probably support a free health care system, or a national organization for strategic research in the sciences. Kevin Cols, Oh --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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