A collective can be a great way to run a company, for some cases. I lived with a girl who worked at a cafe that was run as a collective - it meant that people had a fair say in decisions that affected them. They could vote on their own wages, working conditions, and no one was barking out orders bossing them around. The owner was an old-school left-winger who was doing this out of pure idealism. He was still the one with the financial risk, he dealt with banks, ensured taxes were dealt with, and all the other tasks involved in running a business such as that.
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msage@programming.dev 2 days agoYou don’t need full communism, just make sure companies are owned by the workers, suddenly they will have more money, free time, they will cut down the working hours, and that will help passion projects like these and many more.
There’s no need for this aggresive exaggeration.
MouldyCat@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“Companies owned by the workers” is communism. That’s literally what is meant by “shared ownership of the means of production”.
The “means of production” is all the shit that companies own, such as the land, machines, buildings, raw materials, etc…
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Socialism is the means of production owned by the state or the workers.
Communism is a subset of socialism, where you have a classless society. Different communist doctrines have a different view on how to achieve that.
msage@programming.dev 2 days ago
It’s literally not, but I don’t want to get into it.
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Literally is, sorry you are so confused about the subject.
Zoot@reddthat.com 1 day ago
It do be like that, but sadly human greed has never once gave us a prime example of actual true to spirit communism