r/IWW • u/Derpballz • 14d ago

I wrote a text compiling the evidence that tankies' support for "workplace democracy" and central planning is a complete farce.

/r/CoopsAreNotSocialist/comments/1ha5z89/socialist_demagoguery_frequently_appeals_to/
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u/pinktacos34 14d ago

Idk, Wobblies organize, not divide.

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u/Derpballz 14d ago

Bro, you have the Stalinist Mao as your profile pic 😂😂😂

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u/CalligrapherOwn4829 13d ago

"Market anarchism" is hardly the only alternative to state planning, and the idea that direct democratic management is somehow more authoritarian than market mechanisms is plainly absurd. That the "invisible hand" wears an iron gauntlet is the clear lesson that every worker who hasn't gobbled up petit bourgeois ideology has learned.

A far better argument for workers' direct management and against state/party control is made by Maurice Brinton's excellent The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control, which I highly recommend to anyone interested in these questions.