Market Socialism?

[Nolan]

How do market socialists envision a socialist economy? I understand they would like to see competing firms, but how would this work? Do they favor a set-up like the USSR had in its death throes?

Do we have any socialist marketeers here?

[Physicist]

Present. (Or rather, in before someone quote bombs Marx's Poverty of Philosophy)


Do they favor a set-up like the USSR had in its death throes?


Hells no.


I understand they would like to see competing firms, but how would this work?

I'm confused. Competition already exists (er, somewhat). Are you asking about the larger implications?

[Nolan]

Present. (Or rather, in before someone quote bombs Marx's Poverty of Philosophy)



Hells no.



I'm confused. Competition already exists (er, somewhat). Are you asking about the larger implications?

Nothing you wrote makes sense.

[Physicist]

Sorry, my post probably appears emaciated and slightly out of context. I was asking what in particular about market socialism are you confused about? Generally it's just the promotion of mutual enterprises like worker/consumer cooperatives to delineate advanced production, while simultaneously promoting a more efficient (and radically democratic) government, one that does not intervene in the market to promote thinly disguised corporate endeavors that are both fraudulent and ineffective. Beyond that market socialists, or mutualists, disagree on the extent of government's involvement in safety nets and the extent to which workers will decide the level of sophistication and coordination commercial enterprises shall follow.

But as a rule of thumb, "we" are hesitant to adopt nationalisation as a policy platform, especially in the context of current society where the people doing the intervention are lawyers, business bosses, etc.