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An #EconomicDemocracy is a market economy where most firms are structured as #WorkerCoops.

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  • After capitalism,

    1. All firms should be democratic worker coops. The legal system would recognize the inalienable right to workers’ control.
    2. Land and natural resources should be collectively owned with revenue from private use of this collective property going out as a UBI. The atmosphere is included and any carbon fees are included.
    3. Pools of collectivized capital democratically controlled by workers in member worker coops. Each worker coop leases all its capital from the pool



  • Capitalism and markets
    Anticapitalist views became compelling to me from the analogy between the state’s governance and the governance of the firm. The contrast between the (officially) democratic nature of the state and the complete autocracy of private companies worried me. I was initially a market abolitionist when I become an anti-capitalist, but I found no sound explanation for how such an economy would work.

    Now I am a pro-market anti-capitalist, an unusual position on the left