Date: Thu, 23 Jan 97 2:14:53 EST
From: boddhisatva <kbevans-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-I: Defining through practice





		Rahul,


	The only reason that you believe market socialism will inevitably
sink into capitalism is that you buy capitalist social Darwinism - hook,
line, and sinker.  Capitalism did not arise out of the rising and falling
of relatively equal actors, it arose out of feudalism.  Exploitation does
not come from wage or even asset inequality, but the constitution of
ownership rights.  If a wealthy person cannot hire a wage worker without
giving that worker an equal share in the firm, he cannot exploit him - in
the strict sense.  Naturally, inequalities of wealth create inequalities
of influence in the greater economy - enter the state with lawyers, guns
and MONEY to help the lagging worker into warm, sexy relationships with
brand new capitals, and slice the naughty monopolists into so many "Baby
Bells".  Happy now? 



	peace





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