J'aurais aussi dû souligner à quel point cet article démontre à quel point le capitalisme économique peut très bien coexister avec l'autoritarisme politique.

I personally cringe at the thought of state ownership of anything. The essense of socialism is encouragement of social ownership and the unconditional defence of the Commons, which can take a variety a forms, the least desirable forms often involving state ownership.

I is so absurd this day and age that statism is still being portrayed as socialism. It was understandable, say 50 years ago when Stalinism and Fabianism were the basically the only games in town. But since then a host of cooperative, self-managed or workers power concepts of socialism have developed, to the point that even the ex-Stalinist parties talk of an economy worker and community control. I think we have to see the equation "socialism = statism" as part of a propaganda struggle against people like ourselves. Of course, no one wants Big Government bureaucracy and if socialism can be equated with this, people will find the notion undesirable and sink back into lassitude and acceptance of capitalist authoritarianism.

In the course of our work in the Kansas City and Austin TX areas I've found it helpful to speak to my fellow USAmericans in terms of reinforcing our political republic with an economic democracy, both of which could use the same pattern of constitutional checks and balances. It's pretty simple really. Whoever has control of the economic rudder can steer the entire political ship. Getting control of that economic rudder requires social movement that can act on its agenda....an agenda that can be worked out in the marketplace itself, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. This has taken place, as we know, under both adverse and favourable conditions and results in the functional prototypes that ought to lead to the design and development of updated models that can stand up 10 ways to Sunday while under heavy scrutiny.