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

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Replace Russia with "soviet-communist system".

FC