well thanks
I feel your pain mate
Shouldn't judge a man by his name I guess. Thanks.
The essay I was referring to is called 'Calculation in-Natura, from Neurath to Kantorovich'. He works at the University of Glasgow, his wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cockshott
"Cockshott". Sounds like a brilliant man.
Thanks for thin info. I don't want to get into any depth right here, would like to discuss it more though.
The marginal theory does not refute socialism. Scientific research by one revleft member, Cockshott, and others has shown the value of commodities to correspond to over 95% of the labour time embodied in them. And, apparently, with this we can use labour value (as one component) as a means for economic calculation alongside an array of mathematical models (see Cockshott's writings again, which I scarcely comprehend unfortunately). If egalitarianism is “anti-biological” then how do we explain that for >90% of human existence (98.2% iirc) we lived egalitarian in hunter-gatherer bands? Because they were small perhaps, then how do we explain that the MST in Brazil has maintained an egalitarian structure for decades and now has 1,500,000 members. If we reasonably assume that the MST-model of decision-making is applicable to up to 2 million people than of the 248,752 existing towns and cities, a mere 200 cities surpass the applicability of the MST-model for having over 2 million residents.
Value of goods is marginal, economic calculation problem, anti-biological, all the usual suspects
Why don't you consider communism feasible?
