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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
David Lloyd-Jones includes the dialog
JMC
>To call it not socialist at all excuses Mason Clark and other
>pro-socialists from learning anything from the disaster of "existing
>socialism". "Oh, that has nothing to do with us, even though many of
>the slogans are the same."
DLJ
Again this is not true. Socialists have been aware of the
necessity for signalling systems in the economy since the
twenties -- and have invented all the equivalents which are
used in such socialist economies as Sears Robuck, the US
armed forces, US Steel, GM and so on.
I was thinking about the German Social-Democrats opening to East
Germany in the years preceding the collapse.
If dlj regards Sears Roebuck as socialist, very likely he will get
more flak from his fellow socialists than from me. I think I'll sit
back and relax.
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John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
During the last years of the Second Millenium, the Earthmen complained
a lot.
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