Re: [Marxism] Venezuela and market socialism

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

David P:
> On the other hand, I certainly think there is some place for worker
> owned companies in the struggle for socialism. Working in these
> organizations, one would expect to see an increase in solidarity and
> class consciousness. Workers should also gain a greater ability to
> exercise decision making and administer their own affairs, which I
> believe would be very important if a socialist economy were built.

A year or so before Lenin died, he wrote "On Cooperation", which vigorously 
promotes cooperatives in the USSR. Agricultural coops were a key element of 
the Sandinista revolution as well. My problem is with market socialism, 
which conceptualizes coops as a kind of seed that can sprout into 
full-blown socialism once it achieves critical mass. This is the second 
article I've seen in the past week or so that attempts to shoehorn the 
Venezuelan revolution into anti-Marxist schemas.

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