Workers Councils

[Coggeh]

How would they be run ?

What system is in place to ensure they wouldn't get lazy etc things like this .

I know thats not enough to go on but any broad analysis of them would be great .

Thanks

[spartan]

My view of them would be this. Say there is a factory with one hundred workers producing paper (yes i know shit example :) ). Now every one of the workers in the factory are apart of the council which runs the factory for the commune that it supplies. Now when a decision has to be made regarding how the factory is run or different things coming in etc the workers council (which has every worker in the factory as a member) will vote in a direct democratic style (referendum) to decide what will change or happen. The good thing about a workers council is that it is not a hierarchy as it will practice direct democracy and the workers vote is what will decide the outcome and how the factory is run (workers owning the means of production). And as to getting lazy well i think that the fact that they will be supplying the commune that they themselves and their families live in is incentive enough not to under produce or get lazy which could effect the survival of the factory and commune of which the factory supplies dont you? Well that is my view as to how a workers council will be run i hope it was helpful to you.

[Coggeh]

Thanks , ya that was my view too .. well sort of Lol .

But would it work better if aswell as workers, consumers had a say in it too , to keep it running for the people who are getting the service along with the people who are actually producing it ?

Bolshevik butcher was discussing something like that and i thought it would make sense .

[Lamanov]

Why don't you try reading some worked out blueprints:

Cornelius Castoriadis - Workers' Councils (http://www.point-of-departure.org/Lust-For-Life/WorkersCouncilsAndEconomics/WorkersCouncilsAndEconomics.htm)
Articles by Anton Pannekoek (http://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1936/councils.htm)

Etc.