• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Cooperatives are cool, but unfortunately Markets lead to class contradictions even with cooperatives in place, which is why the goal still needs to be full Socialism.

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      3 months ago

      Cooperatives have different structures to help mitigate class conflicts, but either way the model essentially, or practically, has a baked in, or something akin to a, union by giving members voting rights while not outright excluding the presence of a union.

      I don’t disagree with having a goal of full socialism. I just see cooperatives as a practical stepping stone in that direction.

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        3 months ago

        They certainly can be a practical stepping stone, and probably will be in some countries, I just wanted to indicate that competing worker coops does not defeat the issues inherent to the profit motive.