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Scientific Socialism.

Posted by: Red Deathy ( Socialst party, UK ) on February 10, 1999 at 12:43:39:

In Reply to: Utopianism and its confusants in this room posted by Joel Jacobson on February 09, 1999 at 20:36:32:

: All Utopians have this in common: they seek to overthrow, the methods vary, any current existing order they don't consider rational and replace it with one that has been specifically designed, a priori, instead of spontaneously evolved.

Well that rules me out:
1:I have no a priori plan of what a future society should be like, I only know it must involve the abolition of production for profit and economic exchange. to design a future world in toto is authoritarian, and I have had to defend my refusal to give designs on this board before.
2:My plans are based upon observation of poential that exists within teh world, and an application of those potentialities.- to whit that money and exchange must be removed, and production for needs, based on democracy placed instead...


: The price mechanism is a millenia old historically evolved social tool.

I thought you were suspicious of historical narrative? Anyway, its done its job, it has universalised production, its now becoming redundant and harmful, so lets get shot of it...

: I am opposed to utopianism in all its manifestations.

So am I.


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