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  • J Lou
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    11 year ago

    Worker co-ops don’t necessarily have full worker ownership of the means of production because a worker coop can lease means of production from a third party. It is not socialist. Nor do I mean to suggest it is capitalist. It can’t be capitalism as it has no capitalists as you correctly point out. Since you recognize that it is technically correct to say a worker co-op market economy has private property, you recognize

    Capitalism ≠ private property @asklemmy

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      11 year ago

      So by your perspective, if the Workers co-ops cannot lease from a third party, would that be Socialist?

      Capitalism does not equal private property, but at the same time liberalism is about Capitalism and individual ownership of property.

      • J Lou
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        11 year ago

        Perhaps, but there isn’t a good reason to place such a restriction on worker co-ops. Worker co-ops shouldn’t be forced to buy the entire thing when a segment of its services would do.

        Liberals as a group tend to support capitalism. Liberalism as a political philosophy can have implications that claimed adherents don’t endorse. After mapping out all the logical implications of liberal principles, it becomes clear that coherent liberalism is anti-capitalist @asklemmy