Die Neue Zeit
22nd August 2008, 03:25
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch03.htm
"The German Workers' party, in order to pave the way to the solution of the social question, demands the establishment of producers' co-operative societies with state aid under the democratic control of the toiling people. The producers' co-operative societies are to be called into being for industry and agriculture in such dimensions that the socialist organization of the total labor will arise from them."
Instead of arising from the revolutionary process of transformation of society, the "socialist organization of the total labor" "arises" from the "state aid" that the state gives to the producers' co-operative societies and which the state, not the workers, "calls into being". It is worthy of Lassalle's imagination that with state loans one can build a new society just as well as a new railway!
From the remnants of a sense of shame, "state aid" has been put -- under the democratic control of the "toiling people".
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That the workers desire to establish the conditions for co-operative production on a social scale, and first of all on a national scale, in their own country, only means that they are working to revolutionize the present conditions of production, and it has nothing in common with the foundation of co-operative societies with state aid. But as far as the present co-operative societies are concerned, they are of value only insofar as they are the independent creations of the workers and not protégés either of the governments or of the bourgeois.
I was thinking: with rampant corporate welfare (not just publicized examples like the ones in the recent US mortgage problem), would a demand relating to the legitimacy of occupied workplaces (not just factories) (http://www.google.ca/search?q=occupied+factories) through "state aid" be a good thing or bad? If good, would it be a transitional demand or a minimum demand?
The "state aid" I was thinking of would be limited to the forced buyout from corporations that are shutting down the workplaces (much like forced buyouts of homes for commercial and public development). After the buyout, the state "donates" the purchased business to the employees themselves and leaves them to the unknown (since workers have to learn to run things, anyway).
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/517
Schweickart presents a reform program, consisting mostly of government regulations, which can be fought for before a final end to capitalism. One aspect of this program will be legislation supporting and encouraging producer cooperatives, worker buyouts, and worker participation in firms' decision-making.
"The German Workers' party, in order to pave the way to the solution of the social question, demands the establishment of producers' co-operative societies with state aid under the democratic control of the toiling people. The producers' co-operative societies are to be called into being for industry and agriculture in such dimensions that the socialist organization of the total labor will arise from them."
Instead of arising from the revolutionary process of transformation of society, the "socialist organization of the total labor" "arises" from the "state aid" that the state gives to the producers' co-operative societies and which the state, not the workers, "calls into being". It is worthy of Lassalle's imagination that with state loans one can build a new society just as well as a new railway!
From the remnants of a sense of shame, "state aid" has been put -- under the democratic control of the "toiling people".
...
That the workers desire to establish the conditions for co-operative production on a social scale, and first of all on a national scale, in their own country, only means that they are working to revolutionize the present conditions of production, and it has nothing in common with the foundation of co-operative societies with state aid. But as far as the present co-operative societies are concerned, they are of value only insofar as they are the independent creations of the workers and not protégés either of the governments or of the bourgeois.
I was thinking: with rampant corporate welfare (not just publicized examples like the ones in the recent US mortgage problem), would a demand relating to the legitimacy of occupied workplaces (not just factories) (http://www.google.ca/search?q=occupied+factories) through "state aid" be a good thing or bad? If good, would it be a transitional demand or a minimum demand?
The "state aid" I was thinking of would be limited to the forced buyout from corporations that are shutting down the workplaces (much like forced buyouts of homes for commercial and public development). After the buyout, the state "donates" the purchased business to the employees themselves and leaves them to the unknown (since workers have to learn to run things, anyway).
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/517
Schweickart presents a reform program, consisting mostly of government regulations, which can be fought for before a final end to capitalism. One aspect of this program will be legislation supporting and encouraging producer cooperatives, worker buyouts, and worker participation in firms' decision-making.