I think the best way to put it is that a leftist is someone who believes that workers should own the wealth that they create, while a liberal is someone believes in “socially progressive causes” without examining the underlying systems that bring about the necessity of “socially progressive causes”.

For example, a liberal would want more woman CEOs, while a leftist would want to get rid of CEOs.

Direct worker control ensures a formally flat management structure instead of a hierarchical one. This structure is influenced by activist collectives and civic organizations, with all members allowed and expected to play a managerial role.

Hey that sounds like a horrible process but good luck, it’d be great if that could work somehow.

Seriously, have you ever tried to get 30 or more people to work on a complicated project? Flat structures like that make it take 300x as long.

It’s great for, maybe metalsmiths? Or . . y’know, sanitation workers? Where the gear and scope is more or less always the same? But for software engineering it can’t work like that. Not at any real scale, anyway.