From: Doug Thayer (d_l_thayer@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 23:12:14 MST
Chomsky is against Mondragon. Google for "chomsky mondragon". Something
about hierarchical management structures.
---- Doug On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:38:01PM -0600, Damien Broderick wrote: > > > >Worth reading. > > > http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1132 > > > > Chomsky's Economics > > By James Ostrowski > > *Not* worth reading, IMO. E.g.: > > < Apparently, and this all very fuzzy, the means of production will somehow > be collectively owned by the workers themselves, wherein we arrive at the > silly concept of anarcho-syndicalism. Instead of greedy capitalists owning > the corporation, the workers themselves will own it. But it will not be > ownership in the form of individual shares that can be sold. That's > capitalism. > No, he favors a vague and ill-defined form of collective ownership that the > workers will figure out as they bumble and stumble along towards bankruptcy. > As Mises writes in Socialism, "as an aim, Syndicalism is so absurd, that > speaking generally, it has not found any advocates who dared to write openly > and clearly in its favor." > > > Apparently he's never heard of the Basque Mondragon cooperatives. How else > could he gibe so flatulently against anarcho-syndicalism? See, e.g.: > http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/TEXT/mondragon.html > > Damien Broderick >
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