(Best read after reading Part I) One contrast with current anti-capitalist rhetoric found in early 20th Century commentary is the prominence of a dysfunctionality critique, rather than a moralistic one.
You might be interested to know that I wrote most of what Howie Hawkins, Green Party presidential candidate in 2020, called an "Ecosocialist Green New Deal", https://howiehawkins.us/the-ecosocialist-green-new-deal-budget/, which proposes a $4 trillion per year Federal national plan, mostly to create (green) national infrastructure. This is based on my 2010 book from Praeger, which you can see at ManufacturingGreeenProsperity.com, and you can see other links at GreenNewDealPlan.com (I worked with Seymour Melman for 20 years, fwiw). At any rate, it is a shame that national planning, an idea that was quite prevalent on the left 100 years ago (and not the Soviet kind), is not part of the current national conversation, because I think it has the potential to attract a large chunk of the working class voter base.
Appreciate your work Max. Seymour was an enthusiastic advocate for infrastructure spending, which I think is the 'secret sauce' for using the government to help the economy (hope you don't mind the references, see my article https://prospect.org/article/what-else-could-we-do-19-trillion). Happy to help.
You might be interested to know that I wrote most of what Howie Hawkins, Green Party presidential candidate in 2020, called an "Ecosocialist Green New Deal", https://howiehawkins.us/the-ecosocialist-green-new-deal-budget/, which proposes a $4 trillion per year Federal national plan, mostly to create (green) national infrastructure. This is based on my 2010 book from Praeger, which you can see at ManufacturingGreeenProsperity.com, and you can see other links at GreenNewDealPlan.com (I worked with Seymour Melman for 20 years, fwiw). At any rate, it is a shame that national planning, an idea that was quite prevalent on the left 100 years ago (and not the Soviet kind), is not part of the current national conversation, because I think it has the potential to attract a large chunk of the working class voter base.
Thanks for this. In my own writing I've pointed out the relevance of public ownership for a GND. I knew Seymour myself. He visited EPI once.
Appreciate your work Max. Seymour was an enthusiastic advocate for infrastructure spending, which I think is the 'secret sauce' for using the government to help the economy (hope you don't mind the references, see my article https://prospect.org/article/what-else-could-we-do-19-trillion). Happy to help.