Talk:Economic democracy/Archives/2014
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Arbitrary deletions/ Personal opinions
In August, 2014, an editor called "Bobrayner" apparently took issue with the views of J.W. Smith, Henry George and others regarding "economic democracy", and deleted large sections of text from this article. Unfortunately, Bobrayner didn't notice that J.W. Smith has published one or more books entitled "Economic Democracy", influenced primarily by Henry George. So, for now, that content should not be removed from the article. I realize this article has become quite large, and more is on the way. So I try to make careful deletions before adding new material. But I also try to restrict my deletions to content that is too detailed or redundant, not material that conflicts with my personal opinions. Bobrayner's arbitrary deletion of almost a quarter of this article, without any discussion other than his personal opinions recorded in the Edit Summary, was nothing less than vandalism and entirely inappropriate. So I have reversed those changes. David Kendall (talk) 05:10, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Initial creation
I have absolutely no knowledge on the subject however it had been requested for over a year, so using google I wrote a short framework Robbjedi 02:41, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
This is a tirade, not an encyclopedia article (IP)
As of December 2014, I just wanna say that I am proud of the people that slowly and carefully wrote this stuff and the article about Market Socialism. We have come a long way since 2000/1 (the first time I encountered Schweickart´s impressive work). --"marksoc"/PabloPodhorzer
"Capitalism is characterized by private ownership of productive resources, the market, and wage labor. The Soviet economic model abolished private ownership of productive resources (by collectivizing all farms and factories) and the market (by instituting central planning), but retained wage labor. Economic Democracy abolishes private ownership of productive resources, and wage labor, but retains the market."[1] David Kendall (talk) 11:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- ^ After Capitalism, David Schweickart, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Oct 2002, p.47