And to accomplish this we modify the goals of social democracy... how? Bigger tax breaks for ESOPS? Tax exemptions for workplaces organized along the Yugoslav model?
ESOPS seem to be remarkably hard to encourage, and even when you have them collective-action and free-rider problems seem to make the degree of worker control that is exercised far from ideal...
Caucus and discussion-based systems seem to produce a different sort of system: rule by those who don't have a life, and so can go to meeting after meeting after meeting...
The Yugoslave model seemed to have the fatal flaw that successful and profitable enterprises did not expand but shrank their production: expanding production, after all, meant more workers, and more worker meant that the old workers' take-home profits fell...
Every concrete step I can think to try to take beyond the limits of social democracy seems to me to be blocked: to have already been tried with less-than-desirable results...
Brad DeLong