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On Oct 20, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Andy F wrote:
The complaint about the meetings (and yes, they suck) sounds like, “I want to have communal control over my destiny, but only if it’s not too much trouble.” Maybe that’s just realism.
People want to delegate decisions and get on with their lives, not
engage in endless dickering and bickering. You could never sell
radical economic change if it meant more work. And that balanced job
complexes stuff sounds hopelessly complex to negotiate.
As I say every time this comes up, I don’t see how we can get from
here to there. I do see how we can introduce more democracy and
openness to market relations - to socialize the market, as Diane
Elson put it. That means opening corporate books, introducing more
worker control, regulating business practices, etc. But the sort of
top-to-bottom transformation that Parecon represents, given present
arrangements and consciousness, seems hopelessly utopian (in the bad
sense).
Doug