Richard Wolff talks about worker self-directed enterprises

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4. Yeah. That's cool I read some John Rawls a while ago and don't recall much.

I'll put it on my list of stuff to learn about.

I've been reading/listening to a lot of Rick Wolff lately. He's got a weekly radio show/podcast. The "workers self directed enterprise" as he presents it is an important strategy for building toward socialism. A little deeper in he also talks about the role of the government to help centrally plan and coordinate the activities of the WSDE's. It's just one strategy. Kind of like Mondragon or whatever. Like people have talked about before, if you plop worker-run co-ops in the middle of a capitalist economy, they may still be forced to operate according to capitalist principals. And sometimes they get bought out by for-profit companies. Even at their most successful they have limited effectiveness because their influence is limited. So I tend to agree with Rick Wolff that this kind of activity is a necessary but not sufficient step for ending capitalism.