Re:Is there anywhere in the world someone can just live for ...
by nradov on Sunday November 05, 2023 @08:04PM
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And all of that basically failed or at least never expanded. It is not a scalable economic model that can work in large societies.
Re:Is there anywhere in the world someone can just live for ...
by monadINtop on Thursday November 09, 2023 @04:07PM
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>failed
How? There was no economic failure. It ended due to a political coup. After all there was the slight external complication of a proxy war considered by many to be a prelude to the defining conflict of the 20th century.
>never expanded
Apart from across an entire country you mean?
Right now in spain, the largest buisness group in basque (10th largest overall) is the Mondragon corporation. It’s worker-owned (but not worker managed), although each worker has voting rights. Clearly it is possible - even within capialism - to have some worker autonomy over production.
In 1936, during the civil war in Spain, around 60-75% of urban industry and agriculture was restructured by anarchist labour unions and run and managed by the workers to varying degrees of collectivization. Some towns abandoned the use of fiat currency entirely and instead used systems of vouchers, in small villages goods where distributed even more informally. Industrial production is reported to have increased during this time, and agricultural yields rose by around 30%.