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

[John Thornton]

SA wrote:
> Sheldon Baker wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>   
>
> But it would be harder to get away with ruthless exploitation as a 
> small capitalist firm in the interstices of an economy dominated by 
> non-capitalist firms, in a society no longer dominated by capitalists. 
> No?
>
> SA 

Why would it be more difficult?
What would be gained by not having such enterprises run as cooperatives?
My visits to Czech and speaking with people there don't suggest to me it 
would be more difficult.

John Thornton