Thinking of Cuba and how a large portion of their workers are self employed through second jobs. Many of them seem to have an entrepreneurial spirit. Is there room for someone saying “I want to start a restaurant” and going to a workers council to see if the community needs it? My brother once said he doesn’t want socialism because it means “my dream of starting a business won’t ever happen.”
Is there a way for Socialism to accommodate an individual’s desire to initiate an enterprise without people getting exploited?
So your brother prefers to have a dream, despite knowing he most likely will never realise it, to the concrete promise of owning and directing the place he works at?
Yes but I never got around to explaining Socialism is democratically controlling your workplace not when the government owns it. I’ll use this line of thinking next time it comes up.