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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:

  1. Are organizations focusing on this and I just don't know about it?
  2. If not, what obstacles are there that would hinder this approach to increasing the share labor collective ownership?
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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Russian meaning Soviet, or Russian meaning the current electoral system? Very different.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks for holding my feet to the fire. I believe current, but I could be mistaken, it's been a long time since I read it, so forgive my sketchiness, but each region having elections until one person wins a final vote, to represent their constituency. I just checked Wikipedia and didn't remember the representative voting part, so maybe my bad memory. Is there a post somewhere that compares and contrasts Soviet and Russian models?

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Not sure about a post comparing the two, but the Soviet model was more comprehensively democratic, and functioned like this:

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 1 day ago

Thank you; as always, you're very generous and informative. I have a friend in the mood to chat here, I will read and probably ask dumb questions later.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

No worries! I've been less active lately so it might be a while before I see any response anyways.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 1 day ago

That's ok. I'm not sure where you are, but things seem to be getting real real, globally. A lot of us are focused on community, paying bills, family and organization, and I'm okay with it!

Eta, that picture is perfect, I shared it with my friend. I wish I could get them over here, I feel they might appreciate it, but old dogs/new tricks.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

No problem! I live in the US Empire, hopefully the age of Imperialism is coming to a close. Contradictions are sharpening, eventually quantitative buildup will result in a qualitative and rapid change, and it's up to the working class to make that a positive one.

Glad the figure was useful!

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago

and it's up to the working class to make that a positive one.

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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

We gotta do it, so it helps to be optimistic!

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago

I said in some other thread: hope + will gets results. They may not look exactly like we imagine, but results.

this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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