Workers-Control-Over-Prod
18th April 2012, 06:34
I have been reading and thinking a lot about the institutionalisation of workers control and the relation to the workers' state in socialism. Basically i think that workers controlling their own surplus needs to have institutionalisation in socialism (the transition phase to communism) separate from but in communication with the soviet, not only as a counterbalance to the state's or 'bureaucrats' power, but also to secure political stability as the disparity between workers' productivity-vs-wage has caused many social and in the end political problems in the 20th century "communism".
"Socialism gets rid of its class antagonisms, but not yet its internal contradictions"; Class normally does not solely mean the the official ownership of the MoP, not just who has the Power over them, but who actually controls production.
"they [the workers] themselves appropriate this surplus either of the product or labor"- Karl Marx
So long the appropriators of the surplus (and their subservient) are not the producers themselves, so long there is not a communist subsumed class process of production, you cannot have a classless society (which would rectify a one party state as parties have always been representatives of different classes). So long the working class do not become their own board of directors to control the workplace and society (decide collectively who the supervisors are, the service needs required to hire, the subservient or subsubsumed class positions "planners") and production (what to produce with, how to produce, where to produce and what to do with the surplus) you cannot have a classless society in socialism.
I drew this graph trying to outline my basic thoughts on how it would be structured.
Description:
*The "People's National Council" would be a direct democratic national council where all members of society would be allowed to talk, discuss etc., know that they are not limited to their localities and have the possibility to coerce with the Communist Party's political agendas and plans, criticise, comprehend, dissent.
On the label "Workers' Council" I mean a national council where each enterprise's workers select a representative to go to the council to plan production. People's representative secretaries of the local soviets (recallable representatives of course) would communicate local problems/economic needs through the "Soviet" to the "Workers' Council" as well as state needs of surplus. In 'State and Revolution' Lenin lists 3 main points that apply to this communist subsumed class positions:
"(1) not only electiveness, but also instant recall; (2) payment no higher than that of ordinary workers; (3) immediate transition to a state of things when all fulfill the function of control and superintendance, so that all become 'bureaucrats' for a time, and no one, therefore, can become a bureaucrat". . . "Every cook must learn to govern the state".
I would like to add to the notion to establish the rotation of all members of society that we should extend all communist subsumed class positions (not just the state subsumed class positions, but) those of enterprises' supervisors and worker council planners as well.
"Socialism gets rid of its class antagonisms, but not yet its internal contradictions"; Class normally does not solely mean the the official ownership of the MoP, not just who has the Power over them, but who actually controls production.
"they [the workers] themselves appropriate this surplus either of the product or labor"- Karl Marx
So long the appropriators of the surplus (and their subservient) are not the producers themselves, so long there is not a communist subsumed class process of production, you cannot have a classless society (which would rectify a one party state as parties have always been representatives of different classes). So long the working class do not become their own board of directors to control the workplace and society (decide collectively who the supervisors are, the service needs required to hire, the subservient or subsubsumed class positions "planners") and production (what to produce with, how to produce, where to produce and what to do with the surplus) you cannot have a classless society in socialism.
I drew this graph trying to outline my basic thoughts on how it would be structured.
Description:
*The "People's National Council" would be a direct democratic national council where all members of society would be allowed to talk, discuss etc., know that they are not limited to their localities and have the possibility to coerce with the Communist Party's political agendas and plans, criticise, comprehend, dissent.
On the label "Workers' Council" I mean a national council where each enterprise's workers select a representative to go to the council to plan production. People's representative secretaries of the local soviets (recallable representatives of course) would communicate local problems/economic needs through the "Soviet" to the "Workers' Council" as well as state needs of surplus. In 'State and Revolution' Lenin lists 3 main points that apply to this communist subsumed class positions:
"(1) not only electiveness, but also instant recall; (2) payment no higher than that of ordinary workers; (3) immediate transition to a state of things when all fulfill the function of control and superintendance, so that all become 'bureaucrats' for a time, and no one, therefore, can become a bureaucrat". . . "Every cook must learn to govern the state".
I would like to add to the notion to establish the rotation of all members of society that we should extend all communist subsumed class positions (not just the state subsumed class positions, but) those of enterprises' supervisors and worker council planners as well.