Gar Lipow wrote:
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> Suppose a majority of the population, or even a huge minority did even a
> tiny percent of their shopping at co-ops where there were signs over the
> door saying "boss free zone" and pamplets explaining that the co-op was
> worker owned and run - no bosses, no separate managers. I just think
> it would be a tremendous help in breaking down the prejudcie against the
> idea of workers owning and controlling the means of production.
This is true, but in a different way utopian. If we _could_ do this, then we wouldn't _need_ to do this, because we (and "we" gets fuzzy here) would have already achieved the goals posited by it and would be well on our way to achieving yet more ambitious goals. Or to put it another way, a crucial precondition for widespread existence of coops such as you describe would be the the _prior_ elimination of the prejudice that you posit as the goal of such coops. Put another way, if we had the strength to establish such coops it would be a waste of that strength to do so because we would already have the strength to smash the state and establish socialism.
Carrol