[lbo-talk] The SMB in a socialist economy?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Sheldon Baker
<humanist.observer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> a) a wood/timber firm which is the only/major employer in a given town
>> b) the owner of a pizza shop whom wants to expand and open 4 other
>> locations in town
>> c) two graduates wom want to start their own ISP using a
>> creative/innovative technology not available untl then.
>
> I would think a socialist government and movement would want to
> promote the dominance of cooperatives.  Pizza shop owners and other
> petty bourgoies can be very ruthless exploiters, just as much so if
> not more than many big corporations.

I agree. But this is where Russia failed, or didn´t it? -encouraging
small innovative cooperatives- or was that part part of western
propaganda?

FC