Eva Durant wrote:
>> Free markets were a utopia before Karl Marx was born.
>> They will always be a utopia, no more realizable than "perfect communism".
>
>Lucky then, that Marx was never teaching or researching any such
>concept...
Quite the contrary, Marx was an outspoken critic of bourgeois utopian
socialism. In fact, that was one of his major contributions to political
theory. It's called historical materialism.
>How about planning with democracy and thus free flow of information?
>With the mixture of local and global integrated and sustainable use
>of resourses?
>
>Sorry, there is no third way, the mechanism of capitalism
>is not able to cope with the demands on it, it cannot turn the human
>face, even if we anthropomorphise it and imagine than it wants to...
Planning with democracy SOUNDS LIKE a good ideal, but then so does the free
market. It is the distinction between this ideal and the actual conditions
of life that make such turns of phrase "ideological".
If there is no "third way", it is only because there was no First way nor
Second way. There are rather as many different ways as human vulnerability,
ingenuity and endurance can invent. Utopian socialism and the fetishism of
the commodity (which Marx saw as the core of classical bourgeois economics)
erected barriers to understanding and changing society.
