• @trailing9@lemmy.ml
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        11 year ago

        The difference to regular businesses is that management as a class doesn’t require higher compensation. Similarly, the owners of the cooperative don’t want to be compensated when they don’t want to be part of the capitalist class.

        This, together with the members being motivated workers, gives cooperatives room to compete with regular businesses.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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          -41 year ago

          I understand how cooperatives work, the point you continue to ignore is that none of what you say is seen working in practice despite over a century of people trying to compete with traditional business model under capitalism. Cooperative organization would work perfectly fine after the capitalist system is overthrown however.

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        11 year ago

        The other text mentioned the state machine. Do communists distinguish between the necessities of that state machine and the capitalist class’ dictatorship? The repressive capitalist state, how much is it just a consequence of the authority of the state machine?

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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          -41 year ago

          Yes, communists distinguish between the state machine and the class who holds power. The problem communists have with the capitalist state is that it’s built by the capital owning class in its own interests. Communists think that the working class has to build its own state machine that serves the interests of the workers.

          Once again, if you actually study history, you will see that state style organization arises regardless of the political system, and societies that use this sort of organization outcompete those that don’t. Communists aren’t uptopians, we want tangible and practical improvements in the realm of the possible.