I wonder if it would be possible to make a charitable organisation that receives and buys stock in companies and holds it on behalf of their workers, letting the workers vote with that stock.
That might be a small avenue to workplace democracy.
If it ever gets enough of a company, it could turn it into a proper co-operative.
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@jlou economic planning by states doesn't work. Anarchist economic planning hasn't been tried at scale but shows promise. Capital services is not a real thing its usury no different to landlordism.
@jlou This is why private property of all kinds is theft, renting capital that is the product of your own labour as either an individual or a group replicates exactly the problematic part of capitalism: the assumption of ownership over a porition of someone elses labour because you lay claim to the capital. Have you read any Proudhon? Also money is bad because it makes capital accumulation inevitable, but thats maybe a different topic "The horror is the firm not the fact the firm has a boss"
"I’m all for Fully Automated Luxury Communism as a long-term goal, but to whatever extent that human beings do have to spend part of their days at work, making products (whether to be sold in a market or to be allocated by a planning committee), I want those products to be the ones that people want. I don’t want shelves (or stockpiles of goods waiting to be marketlessly allocated) to be overflowing with things people don’t want, or empty of the ones they do want a la Leningrad grocery stores in 1975. Surely, if you’re more optimistic than I am about the prospects for jumping directly to moneyless marketless Full Communism, it’s precisely because you’re more confident than I am that we can find ways of avoiding that outcome. Whoever’s right about that, the point remains. Whether it’s price signals or planning-assembly votes or whatever, I want us all to have some way of issuing binding “demands” to each other about what to produce during whatever hours we have to spend producing.
Otherwise, we’re wasting our time."
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