• Communist@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Yes, they have a tiny, insignificant amount.

    An entire country has to have workplace democracy for the country to be socialist.

    This is kinda like saying “doesn’t any country with a slice of bread have food”

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      1 year ago

      You think a co-op only has a tiny amount of democracy? I think it’s the best form of workers owning the means of production - the definition of socialism.

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        1 year ago

        I believe they meant that worker cooperatives are a small, almost insignificant part of the overall economy in every country that has them. Often co-ops end up serving a small niche market because they really can’t compete with the anti-competitive nature of capitalist big business.

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        1 year ago

        That’s not what I said, my point is that co-ops make up a tiny fraction of a percentage of the economy. If they made up all of it, that would be socialism.