Date: 14 Sep 96 15:51:18 EDT
Subject: Re communist society


One thing that concerns me about the present debate, and a problem which comes
up frequently in discussion is that many participants assume that it is a matter
of choosing between the status quo (which hasmany horrors but which has good
points : good films, some free speech etc) and the furture socialists society.
>from this perspective many people choose "the best bits" from each, and this
leads people to come up with absurdities such as market socialism.
	But where isthe dynamic. the status quo is getting more an dmore
unstable, and promises us unlimited supplies of third wolrd countries crushed by
the debt, famine, war, unemployment, crime etc etc. the status quo is no longer
available for choosing, it is slowly collapsing.
	In this context it is clear that wehave to choose not a new typeof salad
made up of elements of social organization we saw in a shop windowand which
pleased us, but a new dynamic. There is only in my opinion, two on offer. the
dynamic of control by capital accumulation (profit) and the dynamic of control
by organized labour. In this horse race, you cant' say "well, I'll bet onthat
horse's head but onthe other horses back legs."

John Mullen
SI France



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