https://www.patreon.com/FromAlpha2OmegaWe continue our discussion with Paul S. Adler, this time about his 2019 book “The 99% Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism”. In particular we talk about how capitalist firms are helping to show us how democratically planning in socialism would work. We also discuss the impact of AI on the capitalist economy.The 99% Economy: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-99-percent-economy-9780197656952?cc=gb&lang=en&
Yes. The Communist Manifesto literally says this.
it’s more about how modern firms are pre-figuring planning processes, or in this case feedback loops.
(And if we take extremely pessimistic view, the seeds of capital appeared throughout 14th-17th century as bourgeois guilds, which for socialism we can take coops as a seed, and they have been around for like 150 years
, so the true harvest (coops outcompeting capitalists, cause they don’t have externalities of profit) hasn’t even started to rise)
Oh so its the People’s Republic of Walmart argument?
kinda, more of a specific observation on the worker happiness in specific toyota plant and what were they doing there (sensational headline would be like worker working 30 second per minute unhappy in gm, worker working 57 seconds per minute for toyota - happy, what gives?)
Sounds worth checking out