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Thanks, useful article. I think I only made the comment below on Facebook, and not here, when the article appeared, but just to be sure: If co-ops are part of a spreading phenomenon, and that spread encourages thinking about the next logical, qualitatively deeper step, right on! In what I consider the economic complement to "State and Revolution," Lenin in "Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government" goes on and on about how society must become one big coop, partly by uniting all the small coops, and for that to work he insists on democratic worker accounting and control at all levels (he must repeat that phrase "accounting and control" like 50 times). And notice, by the way, that in any of his writings when Lenin refers to working-class organizations he ALWAYS mentions coops and mutual aid societies (and usually worker reading rooms etc.). https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/mar/x03.htm On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Shalva Eliava via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Regardless of how one feels about co-ops/market socialism, these are > pretty inspiring stories. I liked the Turkish textile > workers-turned-co-op-owners' attitude best: > > "We don’t want to work for a profit, just enough for all of us to get by,” > Aynur Aydemir said. “We work six hours a day, and we like coming to work in > the morning now, because we are our own bosses.” > > > http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/may-day-workers-of-the-world-unite-and-take-over-their-factories > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
