Originally Posted by
cawacko
I've enjoyed reading the exchange and maybe my knowledge of history is lacking here but when has worker control ever existed in any country? I look in my lifetime and we saw the failure of Eastern European Communism, Chinese communism, Cuba, Venezuela etc. To your point about China they still have a Communist government structure but once they implemented free market reforms they brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. (Not that I'm suggesting state sponsored capitalism like they have). Even progressives in the U.S. want to be like the small Scandinavian countries but those countries flirted with socialism and it failed and they went back to free markets (just along with higher taxes and more generous welfare state).
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