Comment on The FTC isn’t too happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs
bartolomeo@suppo.fi 9 months agoDoesn’t it seem like communism and capitalism have the same end game? Company towns and one company that produces everything and you have no options. The only difference I guess is that under capitalism, the owners of the means of production are not accountable to anyone and can not be removed whereas under communism the owners of the means of production are democratically elected members of the workforce that are accountable to the people and can be removed if need be.
Are you sure you’re not confusing communism with authoritarianism or fascism? Capitalism is more closely associated with the latter than communism.
MxM111@kbin.social 9 months ago
In any place where state ownership of means of manufacturing was implemented it lead to dictatorship or dictatorship like state. So, one can see how one can confuse them. But no, I do not confuse them, for one is economic system, and another is political.
So, let me ask, in that model that you describe, who owns the means of manufacturing?
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Why must the state own anything, for it to be a more equitable situation? The people who do the work should own the work, all getting a say in what happens, in terms of what they’re doing, where they’re going, and who’s getting fired. The closest thing to “owning” an individual would have is a person, or likely a team, functioning as spokespersons for negotiating with the state or other companies, but only to communicate how the workers have chosen to conduct business, the only real power they have being communication.
MxM111@kbin.social 9 months ago
So Unions under capitalism?
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
This is, yes, one of the options my post allows for.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Healthcare.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Why must the state own anything -with regards to the conpany-…
bartolomeo@suppo.fi 9 months ago
You mean in communism? I’m no expert but I believe it’s the workers, even though “owning” doesn’t mean quite the same as we use it now.
MxM111@kbin.social 9 months ago
“Workers” is too abstract. Which workers? How is it handled? How do you start new business? Who/how it is paid? Who gets the profit? In what proportions? The natural solution is to have state ownership and saying “the state is the people”, but this is exactly what was done in, say USSR. And it does not work well.