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Originally Posted by Onion Eater
Slippery fellow!
Well, which is it? Reglar thinks that GE Theory "assumes that the normal condition of society is for the state to play as little a role in economic life as possible." Yunker sees GE Theory as the basis for a central planner to "mimic contemporary market capitalism" while retaining for himself the authority to distribute the social dividend – hardly a "little role in economic life."
I wait for a reply.
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Whatever claims may have been made regarding the malevolent intents of GE theorists, is it implausible to claim that market competition does not rule over the realm of "normal conditions of society" in an unchallenged monopoly? Has Kropotkin's
Mutual Aid, the scientific validity of which has been affirmed by Stephen Jay Gould, had no effect whatsoever on this issue?