Mondragon as the New City-State

Re:Mondragon as the New City-State by defrost on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @07:50PM (#41440474)

Wasn't the USSR quite open about not being communist and at best working towards "socialism" as a pathway towards communism?

Surely the USSR is an example of the pigs pulling a bait and switch rather than communism.

The failure of the USSR to achieve communism is a side show to all the variations on worker | producer collectives that didn't fall to Stalinism.

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Re:Mondragon as the New City-State by max_hoffmann on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @08:11AM (#41444732)

Totally. The USSR had no worker-owned companies. They all belonged to the state. There was no economy which is based on cooperatives in a free market, yet.

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Re:Mondragon as the New City-State by kaibee on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @11:54AM (#41447239)

I think we can also say that the former USSR has also failed to achieve capitalism despite having 30 years to do it. So maybe there's some other factors at play.

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