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Toward a Marxist Theory of Labor-Managed Firms: Breaking the Degeneration Thesis

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  • Daniel Egan

    (Department of Sociology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02167)

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The idea that worker cooperatives are at best diversions from class struggle or, at worst, destined to turn into capitalist enterprises is common among the Marxist left. Such a position, however, is the product of an undialectical reading of Marx's comments on cooperation. A dialectical analysis finds that labor-managed sectors succeed in preserving their democratic, cooperative character to the extent that they are connected to a history of class struggle. This conclusion is reinforced through a comparative review of labor-managed sector history and performance within mediated and unmediated advanced capitalist economies.

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  • Daniel Egan, 1990. "Toward a Marxist Theory of Labor-Managed Firms: Breaking the Degeneration Thesis," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 22(4), pages 67-86, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:22:y:1990:i:4:p:67-86
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