Borderlands of Rojava wrote:This is why I'm hesitant with market socialism. I used to be a market socialist back in time during my transformation from being a social Democrat to a full fledged leftist, but now I genuinely worry that a market socialist economy would be a slippery slope back to capitalism.
I personally think market socialism (ie, a free market of cooperatives) has a place at least during a long transition period. But most fundamental or network-based things (housing, healthcare, education, energy/telecom, water, transports, ...) should be handled as public services. I also believe we should progressively phase out money, only keep it for luxuries or necessarily scarce things, with free access being the norm for the rest. And the more the technological progress allows it, the more things should be taken out of the "socialist market" and into the domain of (cybernetic) planning and/or free access.