Capital accumulation is a predicate for the surpluses needed to build a socialist economy.
Worker ownership of means of production, usually.
Public pensions and union shops lay claim to the surplus profits of capital. The UK’s union membership peaked in the 1970s, as did its wages/pensions. After Thatcher, that share declined rapidly, as did the supply of council housing, the access to public health care and education, and the various other amenities common to socialist economies.
Let’s say Eastern Block, China, you get the picture.
The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
Michael Parenti
Don’t get much more “worker ownership of means of production” than that.
You’re not really giving any actual examples of automation shortening the work week in socialist countries here, unless a socialist country for you is the UK in the 70’s and unless automation for you is a maoists uprising against landlords.
Capital accumulation is a predicate for the surpluses needed to build a socialist economy.
Public pensions and union shops lay claim to the surplus profits of capital. The UK’s union membership peaked in the 1970s, as did its wages/pensions. After Thatcher, that share declined rapidly, as did the supply of council housing, the access to public health care and education, and the various other amenities common to socialist economies.
The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
Don’t get much more “worker ownership of means of production” than that.
You’re not really giving any actual examples of automation shortening the work week in socialist countries here, unless a socialist country for you is the UK in the 70’s and unless automation for you is a maoists uprising against landlords.