Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 08:15:04 EST From: tgs-AT-cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu Subject: Re: LTV, Working class (fwd) Justin, I want to get back into the list-serv (HI folks, Justin and I have made up and I've apologized again) with a discussion of youor idea that it's on me to prove that planning will work. I think that's the wrong way of going about it. First we must understand that the market is akin to a disease, with an essentially corrosive effect on human society, by its very nature, as McNally indicates. This can only be accepted if you acept such ideas as the LTV and the Falling Rate of profit, for which I will argue later. In any case, one would not say to one's doctor, if one was dying of what looks like an ALMOST incurable disease these days:" Oh well, this other patient I heard about, although he took a completely contorted version of your remedy, died from your remedy. Why don't we just see if we can tinker around a bit more with the disease, to see if I can live on IT as my guiding corporeal principle" You get the analogy, I hope: the market being the disease, Marx the doctor, and Soviet Russia, that mysterious other patient who applied the remedy of planning in an extremely undemocratic, cock-eyed manner. I'm reading Alexander Berkman's book, the Russian Tragedy, right now, and am interested in his ideas on how things might have turned out. I'm also doing my dissertation on Lewis Mumford, who was in something called the Regional Planning Association of America. Anybody know about this, or want to discuss LM, Catherine Bauer, Stuart Chase, et al.? ------------------
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