Economic Democracy: The Political Economy of Self-Management by Donald A. R. George

By Donald A. R. George

This article explains the motives and results of democratization in the company. It discusses staff' cooperatives, collective capital possession and business democracy. an issue including subject matters equivalent to estate rights, democracy and the possession of capital needs to unavoidably be political and, even if the ebook does current general monetary research, it additionally bargains with political matters. a considerable component to the booklet experiences unique learn and, as well as this, the e-book surveys a few of the correct literature and proposes new associations and guidelines through which a self-managed zone should be promoted below capitalism.

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By Donald A. R. George

This article explains the motives and results of democratization in the company. It discusses staff' cooperatives, collective capital possession and business democracy. an issue including subject matters equivalent to estate rights, democracy and the possession of capital needs to unavoidably be political and, even if the ebook does current general monetary research, it additionally bargains with political matters. a considerable component to the booklet experiences unique learn and, as well as this, the e-book surveys a few of the correct literature and proposes new associations and guidelines through which a self-managed zone should be promoted below capitalism.

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Conflict grew gradually worse and in 1927, two Croat members of the coalition government were shot dead by a Montenegrin member of the National Assembly. In 1929 the King suspended the constitution and declared himself dictator. Administrative reform followed and the name Yugoslavia was formally adopted. Arguments about federalism continued until the outbreak of the Second World War. By 1941 Poland and much of north western Europe was occupied and Hitler moved into Romania and Bulgaria. There was intense German pressure on Yugoslavia to collaborate with the Nazis and in March 1941 the Yugoslav government signed the Tripartite Pact.

Their theory of political action entails direct seizure of the means of production by the workers and peasants, with only a limited role for a 'vanguard party'. Marxists took the view that capitalism would concentrate and centralise the means of production, creating an economy ready for central planning (see, for example, Lenin, 1933). To what extent is the Marxist position consistent with self-management? In Marxist theory a prerequisite of capitalism is the separation of labour from the means of production and the consequent emergence of a labour market.

Secondly capitalism is likely to attenuate, though not entirely eliminate, this sense of solidarity. Last vestiges of it might, for example, be observed in the (British) Blood Transfusion Service in which blood donors voluntarily give their blood, without payment, for the benefit of patients they will never know personally. Once capitalism has been abolished this sense of solidarity and cooperation will find its natural expression in the form of economic organisation adopted in an anarchist society.

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