Re: [OPE] Market socialism [the false assumption of the law of value]

From: Dave Zachariah (davez@kth.se)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2008 - 09:05:43 EDT


on 2008-07-10 11:28 Alejandro Agafonow wrote:
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> I’m going to read you paper to advance specific criticisms
>

You don't need to do that, just address my questions adequately instead 
of ignoring them. On the other hand, if reading the article makes things 
clearer by all means read it since my impression so far is that you 
don't quite understand what you are attacking.

> If the predicted labour-values to prices proportionality hold up 
> anyway, why should Marxists cast aside market mechanism?
>
>  
>
> If you think that the “attractor force” corresponds to labour values 
> –not prices- in a market economy, it follows that prices function is 
> rather redundant –as Valle-Baeza states. As Marx pointed, prices are a 
> superfluous roundabout. So fix labour tokens proportional to labour 
> values and cast aside prices.
>

These two paragraphs are completely incomprehensible to me. Moreover, 
let me repeat again: you'd do this discussion a huge favour if not you 
bring in the potential use of labour-values in a planned economy to the 
issue.

//Dave Z

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