A new square in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad is to be named after Vladimir Lenin, the Itar-Tass news agency reports . The square in the capital,...
alan johnstone
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ISTITUTO DI STUDI COMUNISTI KARL MARX – FRIEDRICH ENGELS istcom@... www.istcom.it 7. November. 1917 . 7. November 2005 88° REVOLUTION OF OCTOBER ...
It sounds like a military program, the vanguard parties have spent most of their lifes talking about tactic and programs more than the freedom of the...
... Let's suppose that Neighbour John Smith has the task of pouring the concrete. Unfortunately he hasn't read enough copies of the Socialist Standard and...
Paul Bennett
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Nov 2, 2005 10:49 am
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... The WSM view is that such changes are likely to happen as the Socialist movement grows but we can't predict how or when they will come about, so there's no...
Paul Bennett
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Paul: You are approaching the crux of the problem. We DeLeonists envision socialism as "an administration of things." Although not spelled out in detail,...
Hi Paul, Even presently,workers would be ,in a strike situation , reluctant to walk off a critical job.Simply becaus it was critical.It is not all about money...
Hey Byron; You have yet to answer 'why' and 'how' the end result of time-for-labor vouchers is so vastly different from using a tweaked moneytary system?..You...
Hey Byron; You: There has been no large industrial country where free-access has been tried! And this effects what I stated ...how? You: In a modern industrial...
Hi Byron Answer; With commodities, probably something operating as a money commodity eg silver. It is easy to loose sight of the fact we are at present living...
Hi Byron You raise several interesting points which I will try to deal with. You say: "Please explain how you would balance production with consumption without...
A very telling remark from the current Iraqi President Talabani about the present so-called alleged sovereignty of Iraq .--------- : Iraqi President Jalal...
alan johnstone
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Hey Marcos; Yes - I mean a moneyless free access use economy society in free association with one and another, including the free association of voluntary...
Lo All, ... How do we balance production to consumption? Simple, we cannot consume more than we produce - production is the limit of consumption. The more...
Dear all, I elieve the issue of labour vouchers has been addressed many times already on this forum. The main point of them is that they allow a transition...
The World Socialist Party of the US has just added to its site some articles which orginally appeared in their old journal "The Western Socialist" in the 1940s...
Adam Buick
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Nov 3, 2005 11:23 am
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Paul, Matt, and Robin: Recall that one of my main reasons for suggesting LV at the inception of socialism is that individuals are not yet cognizant of their...
Dave: You didn't answer my question from my previous post, which was the source of the labor power that would be turned into vouchers that could be saved and ...
Rebecca: If each question is answered serially we can move on to the others. Again in what large industrialized country have labor vouchers been tried? Byron ...
Rebecca: I don't have the time presently to answer each of your previously repeated but already answered objections, but I will consider the last one: "If...
Robin: I should address another point and that is:"There is a school of thought going back to Marx's notion of the development of the 'polytechnic worker' that...
Mr. Buick: I took the liberty of posting the new articles in Spanish in differents forums in Latin America and some of them are concentrated in the politics of...
... The point I was making was that labour-time vouchers would have to be used not just to force people to work X hours but to force particular individuals to...
Paul Bennett
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Today capitalism is using more unskilled labor than skilled labor, most of the so called Maquilanadoras and Free Zone are using more unksilled labor than in...
Hi Byron I thought according to your system the canteen worker would obtain less labour vouchers for her work than the clever chemist like myself due to the...
Dear forum I strongly urge you all to attend the Human Revolution meeting on November 12 (Friends Meeting House - 1330 - see Socialist Standard for details). ...
Jimmy: Better to be happy knowing that production and consumption have been balanced rather to peruse the empty shelves of an unregulated free-access system. ...