Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:29:43 +0930
From: Ian.Hunt-AT-flinders.edu.au (Ian Hunt)
Subject: Re: Marxism: meat and potatoes questions


David Schweickart's *Against capitalism* provides a good coverage of many
of these questions: there is no single answer to them though, although it
can be said that Marx himself did not think that communism would be a
market socialism (with public ownership of enterprises or worker
co-operatives) or an "economic democracy" (worker co-operatives with public
ownership of investment capital). On the question of Marxism and democracy,
I think there are two good discussions, Hal Drapers' *Karl Marx's Theory of
Revolution* and Richard Hunt, *The Political Ideas of Marx and Engels*. I
try to give a plausible version of historical materialism in *Analytical
and Dialectical Marxism*.
But all your questions are very good ones and would take an age to answer
(something like the whole sweep of Marxism, with false leads, varying
extrapolations, and so on would need to pass before our eyes)




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