RNK
20th July 2007, 03:26
Just a question that's been egging at the back of my head...
Let's say in a hypothetical post-revolutionary society where workers own their means of production, what happens when two factories, or two groups of workers, are in competition with one another to provide goods for their area? For instance, let's say there are two shoe-making factories within a short distance of one another, and both, naturally, want their shoe to be the more popular so that they can make a better living off of producing it.
There are two problems I see. First, that small groups of workers may or may not resort to counter-revolutionary strategies (I see a major problem with proto-bourgeois developing in this sort of situation; workers in an individual factory may "slip back into" the bourgeois mode through manipulation by a small number of workers coupled with competition), second, that without a centralized form of some popular authority, I question how this can be effectively prevented. I think it is almost inevitable that at some point, some situation may foster competition, and this shit may start again, even if not consciously.
Let's say in a hypothetical post-revolutionary society where workers own their means of production, what happens when two factories, or two groups of workers, are in competition with one another to provide goods for their area? For instance, let's say there are two shoe-making factories within a short distance of one another, and both, naturally, want their shoe to be the more popular so that they can make a better living off of producing it.
There are two problems I see. First, that small groups of workers may or may not resort to counter-revolutionary strategies (I see a major problem with proto-bourgeois developing in this sort of situation; workers in an individual factory may "slip back into" the bourgeois mode through manipulation by a small number of workers coupled with competition), second, that without a centralized form of some popular authority, I question how this can be effectively prevented. I think it is almost inevitable that at some point, some situation may foster competition, and this shit may start again, even if not consciously.