[FONT=Calibri]We are in the 21st century and people start to think again about the viability of socialism. It[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]seems to me that there are now a number of people coming together and saying that there are[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]three key ingredients to a viable socialism today.[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]One of them is the replacement of money and prices with value-based economics, with[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]economics based on labor time. The other is the use of the much more advanced information[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]technology we now have, to make rational and detailed planning of the economy envisionable[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]in the way it wasn’t before. And finally, the principle I think most modern socialists would[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]advocate, is the replacement of representative democracy with some form of participatory[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]democracy, to give the majority of people real control over the disposition of national[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]income.[/FONT]