• kugel7c@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    No but putting the workers that work in these systems in control would, workers councils, and other worker representation in the companies are steps in that direction and a worker/customer co-op is the endgame. The more people with real knowledge of what a system is doing have democratic control over it the better imo. And the more different specific systems we have the less consolidated the power will be. But we can’t make systems arbitrarily small simply because large tasks require large organizations.

    This obviously is not putting politicians in charge of these systems, but crucialy for these systems to create internal political action, which can lead to real accountability by the workers and other affected groups. So yes the Argentinan post opening an online store isn’t really enough, but at least the Argentinan post is controlled by people whos job is shipping, and by people who are likely already unionized.

    Essentially I don’t really subscribe to Marx’s idea of a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat, because I think dictatorship can’t be ‘of the proletariat’, but crucialy I still think communism can potentially be reached via this fractalised democratization of different systems. As much as I think you should have more of a say about things physically close to you, local democracy, I also think you should have more of a say in what you and your colleagues do, worker democracy, and you should have more of a say over things that you rely on, ?! Needs based democracy. And from lemmy we can see this should also be the case for social groups probably, so group democracy.