FWIW the actually existing socialist countries (TM) never got rid of small private business entirely, to varying extents.
--- On Tue, 2/24/09, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] The SMB in a socialist economy?
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 3:17 AM
> Recent talk here on this list made me wonder what people
> here think is
> the role of the small and medium sized business in a
> socialist
> economy.
>
> Should cooperatives be encouraged by the government, or is
> there still
> room for the small for-profit capitalist style business?
> Cases in point:
>