From: Gerald A. Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Fri Jun 04 2004 - 17:09:46 EDT
Hi Howard. > It might be worth making explicit a political consequence of this debate > that is of no small significance. If value exists only where there is > capital, then we can exchange products for gold under communism. Market > socialism will certainly play an important role in any transition, to be > sure, but there is also the theoretical question of whether markets are > compatible with the social form that we want to transition to. If there's > no necessary connection between value and markets, they are. This is a > whole other debate, I realize, but I think the implications of Marx's theory > are to the contrary. So -- from your perspective -- the social relations [of production] associated with value can persist in a *classless* society? (Maybe I have misunderstood you but that seems to be what you are suggesting.) Of course, there _are_ necessary connections between value and markets. Did anyone suggest otherwise? In solidarity, Jerry
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Jun 05 2004 - 00:00:01 EDT