Date: Tue, 8 Apr 97 1:30:01 EDT From: boddhisatva <kbevans-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: M-TH: the death of marxism Mr. Henwood, You wrote: "And what's on your "mind"?" Yes. well the quotation marks are quite the product of editorial brilliance but since you ask: besides suffering, enlightenment, nothingness and compassion, the idea that the common ground between the planners and marketeers is the substitution of a new credit structure to replace the capitalist one (planning, execution of same) . One wonders whether the changes from Marx's capitalism to the modern corporate capitalism are dialectical in nature and if so (as seems clear) what does that mean for the nuts and bolts of the new, socialist market economy. I've tried to engage you on this topic before, if only because one believes that you understand the essential, transforming role that credit plays in an economy, and do not write it off simply as more bourgeois folderol. You have at your ready disposal pertinent figures, and one believes that you might relate your factual understanding of the bourgeois credit system to any proposed socialist one. I am currently wrestling with the question of whether private credit co-ops are too threatening to market socialism, and whether or how they might be out-competed, or done away with legally without leaving the economy in the lurch. peace --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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