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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 00:15:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Andrew Hagen <hagena-AT-mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu>
Subject: Re: LTV, Working class (fwd)



Justin Schwartz writes, in critique of planned socialism:
> Projections based on the past year may be misleading. Say you marry or
> have a baby, or develop a new passion for acquiring old jazz and blues
> '78s, or quit your job and start a new career in a different line of work
> which requires different equipment (say you become a carpenter, as my
> ex-executive sister did), or any of a lot of other things which might
> change your consumption patterns.

This is not socialist at all. What kind of socialism can you have when the
division of labor exists? 

"Planned socialsm" does not mean "a planned economy facing the same 
problems as capitalism but with a direction generally helpful to most 
people," i.e. fascism with a happy face. Planned socialism, or just 
socialism, or communism, is the resolution of contradictions within 
capitalism resulting in a wholly different society.

in solidarity, 

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Andrew Hagen                              hagena-AT-mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu
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obMarx: "relegion is the opiate of the masses, but the heart of a 
heartless world." (citation?)


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