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Economic Activism and Progressive Living

iemanja

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4. Workers own the factories

Reply to Waterguy (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 8, 2023, 03:17 AM

Jan 2023

There is no employer, and no one is exploited by an employer's profit motive. It's idealistic, but that's the concept.
Marx is meant to be the quintessential materialist. Unless you mean materialism as in a lust for goods. His ideal society doesn't have room for that.

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Communism or Capitalism - what do they mean [View all] Waterguy Jan 2023 OP

Communism means the workers control the means of production iemanja Jan 2023 #1

how could the workers control the means of production? Waterguy Jan 2023 #2

Workers own the factories iemanja Jan 2023 #4

thanks Locrian Jan 2023 #5

iemanja, you answered my question before it was asked Waterguy Jan 2023 #3

obviously communism wouldn't work - but it's not the threat they say it is Waterguy Sep 2023 #6