How Do We Overcome Capitalism?
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The Left Critique of Democracy in the Community
If we think about what the most hierarchical, coercive institution that imaginable is, it's probably the army, right? It's probably the military, a branch of the state. But applying this same critique, these principles that you lay out, when we start to apply it to different institutions, we see that it isn't just a critique that applies to for-profit private sector corporations. Because you have the same problem when you look at the state, and it's various components: public transit workers, education workers who are denied self-management over their work. So if we think of what self-management implies in terms of the reconstruction of social institutions, I think it has two sides to it
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