[MD] Problems with Intellectual control of Society

[francisco albano]

Paco:
IMHO, There will never be a global socialistic government. Each country will/should work out its socialist realizations through united front strategy and tactics of progresive democratic classes, sectors, groups. Some of the big tasks will be to crush neo-colonialism and promote social production and social ownership of the means of production, specailly of strategic industries. The means? The path of holistic (economic, political, cultural, spiritual) unarmed revolution and international solidarity of peoples, I pray. Trade liberalization , privatization, denationalizaton, deregulation under monopoly capitalist globalization cause untold sufferings of Third World countries.
 


 
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--- On Sat, 10/10/09, plattholden at gmail.com <plattholden at gmail.com> wrote:


From: plattholden at gmail.com <plattholden at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MD] Problems with Intellectual control of Society
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 11:36 PM


On 10 Oct 2009 at 2:41, francisco albano wrote:

> 
> Platt:
> One look at history is all one needs to be convinced that capitalism 
> (profit motive/competitiveness/self-interest) fosters innovation, the result 
> of being open to the evolutionary force towards betterness of DQ. This is 
> well explained in Lila, Chp. 17.  
> 
>  
> Paco:
> Competitive capitalism fosters innovation until it transforms into monopoly-monopsony capitalism and becomes superexploitative of peoples and nations, and has to impose globalized neo-liberal liberalization, privatization, denationalization and deregulation. Thus the next stage of socialism as a higher form of evolution.
> 

Platt.
Well at least I learned a new word: monopsony. And example given in 
Wiki: "A single-payer health care system, in which the government is the 
only "buyer" of health care services, is an example of a monopsony." I  
take it "monopsony" along with "monopoly" symbolizes something of low 
value. 

Paco's solution to capitalism's downside (no social pattern is perfect) is 
to "impose," among other things, " privatization" and "deregulation" two 
value patterns I heartedly endorse but that would seem to enhance, not 
reign in, capitalism's perceived faults. 

Paco also argues that "the next stage of socialism" (which I take to 
mean a global socialistic government) is a "higher form of evolution." I 
fail to understand how a system that stifles DQ at the national level 
would somehow find enlightenment at the global level.   

> "From a static point of view socialism is more moral than capitalism. 
> It's a higher form of evolution. It is an intellectually guided society, 
> not just a society that is guided by mindless traditions."
> lila chpr 17

Platt;
The problem is, as Pirsig explains, socialism's static pattern that tends 
to ignore and/or smother DQ. 



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