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"I wonder if we could close it even further if we let the employees control the means of production." Employees do control the means of production. They make a
by edblarney 10y ago
"I wonder if we could close it even further if we let the employees control the means of production."
Employees do control the means of production. They make all the decisions and do all the work.
You probably meant to say own the means of production.
Tried that. See: every Communist regime, all of which failed :)
Anybody is free to create a startup with 100% employee ownership - you can do it today. All the power to you, it'd be cool if that worked, I just don't think it will.
- ue_ 10y ago>Tried that. See: every Communist regime, all of which failed :) This is an uncharitsble and pessimistic view of the development of socialist theory since the failure of such regimes. Arguably capitalism has a more rich history of failure. >All the power to you, it'd be cool if that worked, I just don't think it will. Precisely; you can see that it is almost impossible to avoid exploitation of yourself or others worjers within capitalism.
- kofejnik 10y agoall factual evidence leads to inevitable conclusion that Communist and Socialist theory is a steaming pile of horseshit source: born in USSR
- ue_ 10y agoLiving in the USSR isn't a valid argument against socialism, it merely shows that the USSR's methods were not good, if anything.
- edblarney 10y ago"Arguably capitalism has a more rich history of failure." Ha. Yes. That argument. It's funny debating about the colour of the night sky with people.