Political Philosophy of Workers' Cooperatives
The advocacy of workplace democracy, especially with the fullest expression of worker self-management, such as within workers' cooperatives, is rooted within several intellectual or political traditions:
- The alleviation of alienation in the workplace, especially in regard to Marxist thought
- The encouragement of Participatory or direct democracy
- Radical but popular-democratic strategies for the overthrow of capitalism, for example, several strains of anarchist thought.
- Autonomy and self-control, especially within anarchist thought.
- Cooperating with other Worker Cooperatives
Workers' cooperatives are also central to ideas of Autonomism, Distributism, Mutualism, Syndicalism, Participatory economics, Guild socialism, Libertarian socialism as well as others.
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