From: Jerry Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Tue May 22 2007 - 07:06:41 EDT
> How do you ensure that the total proposals put forward correspond to a > feasible plan? Hi Paul: Before the process of voting begins, every participant would have to know the total amount of resources available. It's possible to conceive of some specialized citizens' committees which has elected representatives of different communities, who would have to resolve disputes. The real problem here is cultural, rather than scientific: what is the process by which citizens come to realize for themselves that their consumption patterns need to change for social and environmental reasons? The problem of internalities can only be resolved in a more advanced and progressive socialist society than we have seen to date. The issue isn't simply one of the presence or absence of abundance. In solidarity, Jerry
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