Socialist Ideas Seminar: Market Greed or A Plan for Social Need?

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 19:00

Under capitalism, the economy is not planned. It's basic driver is the corporate thirst for profit - not meeting people's needs. Yet seriously tackling climate change and growing social disadvantage would seem to demand putting a conscious plan in place of the prevailing market anarchy. Is a publicly owned, democratically planned economy actually feasible.
Presenter: Dave Holmes

Resistance Centre,
Level 5, 407 Swanston St,
City (opp. RMIT)

Background Reading: Ernest Mandel, 'In defence of socialist planning', http://tinyurl.com/mandel-planning