On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Doug Henwood wrote:
> When I talk to the OWS kids, I'm going to try to do some version of
> Marx's argument about how the joint-stock company represents the partial
> undoing of capitalism within capitalism. (I.e., shareholders serve no
> useful function - so if they can hire managers to run "their" companies,
> why can't workers?) But we need some institution like the corporation to
> organize production - what do they think would replace it? Small
> proprietorships?
They probably think self-managed worker-owned cooperatives, no? Autonomia, autogestion, etc. -- international anarchism has always been big on "autos."
Michael