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

[John Thornton]

Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> FWIW the actually existing socialist countries (TM) never got rid of small private business entirely, to varying extents.
>>     
>
> You're right. And one of the discursive weapons used by the right wing
> against any proposition of socialist measures is to scare people away
> telling "they're against your profit, your private ownership and you
> making a living with your SMB!".
>
> Another question is when does small becomes medium sized business, and
> what happens when that SMB becomes too big.
>
> FC

Aren't such small independent proprietors generally the primary source 
of right-wing nuttery who oppose a great many expansions of public welfare?
In the US most small business owners seem to fit this mold and the few 
I've met in Canada, France, and Czech also fit this mold.
I'm definitely not sold on the idea that they must be privately owned or 
else we "suffocate small style innovation and entrepreneurship"

John Thornton