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.
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?
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.
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