From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Thu Dec 20 2007 - 09:40:55 EST
---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [OPE-L] Considerant's _Principles of Socialism_ From: "Joan Roelofs" <joan.roelofs@verizon.net> Date: Wed, December 19, 2007 9:55 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Jerry Levy, I thank you for posting the information about my new book. Perhaps you, or one of your associates, would like to review it. The book has been out for a year and a half, and I have seen no reviews. Review copies are available from rm@maisonneuvepress.com I am really a Fourierist. Fourier was concerned with such obsolete [sic] issues as how can farm labor be performed in a democracy (i.e., without slaves or serfs), the loneliness of single people and the elderly, the failure of most marriages, boring work, waste of resources and energy (e.g., for heating, lighting, and transportation) in the family system, self-esteem in a competitive society, as well as monopolies, war, exploitation and those other 19th century problems. Part of his solution was a guaranteed income (in kind), including food, housing, clothing, entertainment, education, medical and dental care, and sex. He was also hilarious. I would translate his "world war of meat pies" (competition to produce the best ones, a substitute for war) except that the job is daunting because of his neologisms. Sincerely, Joan Roelofs
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