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Are 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 pro
by ue_ 10y ago
Are 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.