The overarching goal of communism is for laborers to own the means of production instead of an owning/capitalist class. Employee owned businesses are the realization of communism within a capitalist society.
It seems to me that most communist organizations in capitalist societies focus on reform through government policies. I have not heard of organizations focusing on making this change by leveraging the capitalist framework. Working to create many employee owned businesses would be a tangible way to achieve this on a small but growing scale. If successful employee owned businesses are formed and accumulate capital they should be able to perpetuate employee ownership through direct acquisition or providing venture capital with employee ownership requirements.
So my main questions are:
- Are organizations focusing on this and I just don’t know about it?
- If not, what obstacles are there that would hinder this approach to increasing the share labor collective ownership?
The verb “maximising” suggests a measurable “utility” which can be “maximised”, rather than needs which are either met or not.
When you have hundreds of millions of people in your country, it’s not as black and white as that, even just logistically speaking…
I see “maximizing” in this context (describing utility) to imply doing it as well as possible.
Though I suppose, “optimizing” would be a better word to use.
Come on, it’s clearly a simple description of a mode of doing things that is not “make line go up”. If you need me to dumb it down for you.
We were literally getting into what individual words mean prior to my comment, I’m not sure why you suddenly have an issue with that and feel the need to “dumb it down for me”.
But sure man, someone with the username “communism” must know everything there is to know about leftist thought… What was I thinking 🙄