On Oct 7, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>>> They probably think self-managed worker-owned cooperatives, no? Autonomia, autogestion, etc. -- international anarchism has always been big on "autos."
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>> For sure, and they've got a lot to recommend them. But how you scale those up, and get the units to relate to each other - not easy questions.
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> No, absolutely. But I think that's their idea of a "world without corporations" -- that the worker-owned factory cooperatives will enter into relations with each other. And the larger structure of those relations will somehow evolve through their interaction (which will be conducted through the internet) and through democratic regulation exercised through government.
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> Vauge, to quote your wife. But to fair, it's hard not to be vague about After.
For sure. (Actually, the "vauge" was scrawled on the manifesto-in-progress.) This is not a topic for that event, but it is something to think about.
Doug