Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate
by dragonwriter on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:18PM
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> In most cases, workers can own the means to production as many corporations are public
A thing being true throughout an economy and it being permitted by the formal rules are not the same thing.
Socialism is not merely where some workers do control some of the means of production, but where the entirety of the means of production are cobtrolled by the workers by virtue of their being workers.
If some people who happen to work also happen to have a private property relationship to some capital sufficient to be on par with their labor in terms of importance in their personal relation to the economy, then they are just petit bourgeois in a capitalist economy.
A thing being true throughout an economy and it being permitted by the formal rules are not the same thing.
Socialism is not merely where some workers do control some of the means of production, but where the entirety of the means of production are cobtrolled by the workers by virtue of their being workers.
If some people who happen to work also happen to have a private property relationship to some capital sufficient to be on par with their labor in terms of importance in their personal relation to the economy, then they are just petit bourgeois in a capitalist economy.