From: Jerry Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Wed May 23 2007 - 08:41:59 EDT
> This procedure would consider the scarcity issue Jerry is underestimating. Hi Alejandro: There are only so many resources that can be distributed for alternative purposes, it's true, but I think others are underestimating the way in which framing social questions in terms of scarcity has resulted in or reinforced authoritarian and hierarchical practices. To begin with, how many resources there are is not at all an easy question to determine. There are *huge* issues related to that question related to cultural and labor practices and environmental consequences. The issues associated with different perspectives on scarcity must be discussed and resolved by the people themselves -- in an egalitarian and participatory economy. So I don't think I am underestimating the issue of scarcity. I think many others are underestimating the contentious character of that issue. In solidarity, Jerry
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