Imo, a socialist revolution starts by rejecting our current business associations and recreating them as employee-owned businesses.
What I mean by that is instead of worrying about “Unionizing” start scouting and then taking the capable people in your corporation that would allow you to recreate your current workflow. Then do your previous employer’s job better, while continuously sucking up their work force. Imagine how much money there is to go around when you cut out the middle-men(CEO/Board of Directors), and how easy it would be to steal the talent while leaving them with the mushroom managers.
As for defending human rights, and freeing people from oppression, that takes violence. And doesn’t require waiting beyond grouping up and dealing with the ugly business at hand.
I love lichess.org as an example of what can be done by cutting out executives. It’s a chess website that strongly rivals chess.com. Everyone who works on it gets paid, but the site is free, and lives on donations. And only a tiny percentage of users donate, yet they still cover all costs. Because none of it is going to corporate leeches.
It’s gonna take a socialist revolution to liberate people from oppression
Okay but what if instead we just made everything worse and shot ypu for suggesting there was any other options?
Imo, a socialist revolution starts by rejecting our current business associations and recreating them as employee-owned businesses.
What I mean by that is instead of worrying about “Unionizing” start scouting and then taking the capable people in your corporation that would allow you to recreate your current workflow. Then do your previous employer’s job better, while continuously sucking up their work force. Imagine how much money there is to go around when you cut out the middle-men(CEO/Board of Directors), and how easy it would be to steal the talent while leaving them with the mushroom managers.
As for defending human rights, and freeing people from oppression, that takes violence. And doesn’t require waiting beyond grouping up and dealing with the ugly business at hand.
I love lichess.org as an example of what can be done by cutting out executives. It’s a chess website that strongly rivals chess.com. Everyone who works on it gets paid, but the site is free, and lives on donations. And only a tiny percentage of users donate, yet they still cover all costs. Because none of it is going to corporate leeches.
Employee owned businesses while better than capitalist owned businesses, aren’t the solution imo and the wrong thing to focus on.
Ownership by the “working class” > ownership by the “workers”. This can be established by consumer cooperatives which sadly aren’t referenced enough.
Ah, now if you said that worker coops must be the only institution allowed to sell labor, then I’d definitely agree.
So basically: