Walmart Article
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Whoops, I thought this reply to Robin’s article would come up here:
“There won’t be, and cannot be, such a thing as a ‘corporation’ in a society based on the common ownership of the means of production. The very raison d’être of a corporation derives from its exclusive private or monopoly ownership of the productive assets in its legal possession and, as such, this is wholly incompatible with the very nature of such a society. ”
Won’t there be football clubs, bowls clubs, universities, etc. They, as bodies corporate, would exercise exclusive control of patches of land and equipment (albeit as a trust of common property)? Likewise, railways will need some sort of organisational body, a corporation, to run them, and that body will need to have exclusive control: similarly, other forms of delegated function will require a corporate body.
Even economically, a shoe factory will require a corporate body, a co-operative, to operate, Marx & Engels’ ‘Industrial armies’
Certainly, there will be no *capitalist* corporations, but there will be corporations.
And, as for Walmart, the point isn’t that a corporation could plan socialism, but that the tools and techniques of planning used by Walmart could be applied by socialist associations. Walmart, or Amazon, converted to serve human needs rather than the production of value.
There is a new concept that is being propagated by the right -wingers and the right wings populists known as corporate socialism/communism and corporate welfare, they do not have a clue of what socialism/communism really is, or they are trying to distort the minds of the workers
There was a Trotskyist group who wanted to nationalize the Budweiser corporation.
Several corporations in Argentina were taken under the control of the workers and they had to be run as business enterprises in order to produce profits, and many left-wingers groups were saying that it was a step toward socialism, and then the state passed several laws and they took those corporations from the workers.
In a socialist society warships, and aircraft carriers can be used to turn them into hospitals, or schools to serve the needs of the human beings
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