Syndicates, Cooperatives and Common Ownership

[Comrade Strong]

What are the differences between these three forms of ownership/management and are they compatible with a society that uses Communes as a model of government?

[tuwix]

Syndicates are just labor (trade) unions who are supposed to have power in anarcho-syndicalism.

Cooperatives are enterprises who are to be managed by workers. They are existing now and they were existing, but their existence doesn't constitute ownership to the workers although that is its idea. However, idea has become corrupted. Sometimes cooperatives are governed by oligarchies working in its own interests ans workers have nothing to do with that. They employ people without giving them right to decide. And law of many capitalist countries actually enforces such corruptions in terms of building oligarchies. Nonetheless, idea is still to be implemented according to socialist needs. If cooperative has direct democracy, the corruption doesn't exist there.

Common ownership is divided on two Marxist phases. In first one, there is common ownership of production means' that are cooperatives in theory. In the second, there is full common ownership which means that everything is common beside personal property. In first ownership, the property of one cooperative or other enterprise isn't a property of another one. In the second phase, it is.