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> I own two shares of GM stock, so I am one of the enemy? If the amount of ownership gives you a controlling vote, yes. You should give up that level of owners
by LesZedCB 10y ago
> I own two shares of GM stock, so I am one of the enemy?
If the amount of ownership gives you a controlling vote, yes. You should give up that level of ownership unless you work there.
Control of the company should be directed solely by the workers affected by the decisions made (and possibly a government allowing greater long term control, such as reducing non-renewable energy consumption). One worker, one vote.
http://www.democracyatwork.info/ http://www.democracyatwork.info/ is a good resource for more info on how I think enterprises should organize themselves.
- ue_ 10y agoAre you proposing a Socialist system of the workers taking control of the means of production, or merely the idea that companies (i.e entities that exist to provide profit for a bourgeois owner) ought to be democratically controlled?
- LesZedCB 10y agowhat exactly is the difference? If all industries become worker owned, is that not worker control of the means of production? Personally, I don't think worker coops will become widespread under capitalism to be a real threat to big capital. However, I think Richard Wolff's idea that they are practice for worker bottom up democracy which can be implemented under capitalism is correct. edit: i read your comment as "democratically owned" instead of "democratically controlled." In that case, I advocate the former, a socialist seizure of the means of production.