Some Thoughts on Worker Control

Some thoughts on worker-control under Capitalism.

The examples cited in yesterday's post about how Occupy Sandy boosts worker-run coops amid rebuild are really sparse.

Except for Spain and Venezuela, the other examples are about workers who have been forced out of the Capitalist system by the closing of businesses, and they are filling a gap in the economy that the Capitalists are unwilling to fill.

My concern has been about the lack of political education that has occurred in these cases. The difference in Venezuela seems to be that the political ideological is driving the change to worker-control, instead of workers taking control because they have no other choice. There the education of the workers seems to be proceeding along with the take-over of businesses.