Democracy at Work (d@w)
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Democracy at Work: Nonprofit media that analyzes capitalism critically as a systemic problem and advocates for democratizing workplaces as part of a systemic solution. Founded by Richard Wolff. We can do better than capitalism. Our Media: Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff, David Harvey, Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Capitalism Hits Home, All Things Co-op, Understanding Socialism, Understanding Marxism

From the recent Bad Faith podcast. Gonna read up on them. Seems like a decent first step towards full communism, with the added benefit of I don't think people have an immune response to the term.

"Democratize the workforce" is pretty close to "seize the means of production". I'll take it, for now.

  • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah, I'm inclined to be pretty generous towards his solutions simply because he's at least presenting solutions.

    • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      But it isn’t a solution unless he tells us how exactly we co-operatise the vast majority of the US economy - are Google, Apple, and the rest just going to let their workers do this? Are co-ops supposed to start fresh and compete with established enterprises? What about public sector work, how do you “democratise” a government job when you work for the bourgeois state?

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Limited, partial solutions can be valuable as a proof of concept, as a means of normalizing a once-radical idea, as a way of developing improved ideas through trial, as a way of building worker power for larger solutions, etc. There's a real danger of dismissing anything that's not a silver bullet, and we shouldn't succumb to that.