The overarching goal of communism is for laborers to own the means of production instead of an owning/capitalist class. Employee owned businesses are the realization of communism within a capitalist society.

It seems to me that most communist organizations in capitalist societies focus on reform through government policies. I have not heard of organizations focusing on making this change by leveraging the capitalist framework. Working to create many employee owned businesses would be a tangible way to achieve this on a small but growing scale. If successful employee owned businesses are formed and accumulate capital they should be able to perpetuate employee ownership through direct acquisition or providing venture capital with employee ownership requirements.

So my main questions are:

  1. Are organizations focusing on this and I just don’t know about it?
  2. If not, what obstacles are there that would hinder this approach to increasing the share labor collective ownership?
  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Not sure about a post comparing the two, but the Soviet model was more comprehensively democratic, and functioned like this:

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      4·
      5 hours ago

      Thank you; as always, you’re very generous and informative. I have a friend in the mood to chat here, I will read and probably ask dumb questions later.

        • Maeve@kbin.earth
          3·
          4 hours ago

          That’s ok. I’m not sure where you are, but things seem to be getting real real, globally. A lot of us are focused on community, paying bills, family and organization, and I’m okay with it!

          Eta, that picture is perfect, I shared it with my friend. I wish I could get them over here, I feel they might appreciate it, but old dogs/new tricks.

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
            3·
            4 hours ago

            No problem! I live in the US Empire, hopefully the age of Imperialism is coming to a close. Contradictions are sharpening, eventually quantitative buildup will result in a qualitative and rapid change, and it’s up to the working class to make that a positive one.

            Glad the figure was useful!