File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9712, message 98


Date: Sat, 6 Dec 97 2:10:07 EST
From: boddhisatva <kbevans-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-I: M-FEM: JKG meets VI Lenin: Let's add a feminist voice





		To whom...,


	Far from an argument against the market, the example of
overproduction here is a cautionary tale for those who think that they can
regulate the economy into order.  The problem that small agricultural
producers (fishermen, small farmers) have is a simple lack of
diversification and inadequate access to hedging and new markets.  When
anybody overinvests in a particular technology (be they governments,
individuals, firms, whatever) they lose the ability to respond rationally
to the market since for them it is produce or lose everything.  Of course
we have seen this time and time again with nationalized industries that
are not well rationalized to the market. When an economic unit lacks
capital to hedge its production strategy it has no choice but to produce
all it can regarsless of the use value of that product. 


	Production boards, quotas and other neo-socialist, statist methods
are doomed to failure.  They attempt to limit the capitalist market, and only
succeed in limiting commerce and overall production in the end.  The answer
is not to contain the capitalist market, but to radicalize it, and give it
over to the proletariat.  




	peace





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