It's a talk that Michael gave at el Encuentro Nacional de Trabajadores Hacia la Recuperación de Empresas (the National Meeting of Workers for the Recovery of Enterprises), organized by la Unión Nacional de Trabajadores (UNT, the National Union of Workers) in Caracas, Venezuela, 22 October 2005. Isn't Michael the luckiest of socialist intellectuals today, to be able to be of direct assistance to workers debating how best to move the revolution forward, on top of being married to the brilliant and beautiful Marta Harnecker?
Venezuela being still "a society marked by such extreme differences between the living standards of the mass of working people (so many of whom function within the informal sector) and workers in relatively privileged sectors," co-management -- especially in such strategic sectors as oil -- isn't an easy task, but the fact that it's on the agenda at all makes me happy to be alive in this period of history.
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