[lbo-talk] PBS special on socialist housing co-ops

[Sheldon]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au> wrote:
> At 5:02 PM -0700 28/4/09, B. wrote:
>
>
> But the moral is that you can't just assume that everyone wants to take
> responsibility. Most people haven't been brought up that way, they've been
> brought up to live in a world where they take orders and its always other
> people who give orders and take responsibility. Self management has to be
> learned. It can be learned, but in our present society it isn't natural by a
> long shot.
>
> So as for the US auto workers successfully self-managing the American car
> industry, worker ownership isn't the only precondition. Tnext big hurdle is
> that they have to want to be responsible for management. I suspect that this
> might be a very alien concept.
>
> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell Tas

What are peoples take on the Klien and Lewis film "The Take"?   And
does anybody hear anything more on the Argentine factory reclamation
movement or whatever it is or was called?

One book I particularly found interesting years ago was Peter Winn's
book Weavers of Revolution, The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to
Socialism in that as I recall it portrayed alot of conflicts among
workers who wanted to seize control of the factory and others who were
more complacent.  Unfortunately Pinochet settled that dispute.

And of course managing the whole monstrosity that is GM is a whole
other story than self-management of a small textile factory.