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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 4826115" data-attributes="member: 56035">sure that is.  are worker cooperatives more organic and smooth operating than capitalist biz?  they are statistically more likely to succeed after all and are more democratic in theory.check out michael hudson junk economics for critiques and what he thinks a free market is.  im going to quote him and chomsky on free markets soon.just cuz the us govt and russian govt calls it communism doesnt mean it is.  govts lie.  i know they busted up teh workers councils right away in russia which makes me think the collectivization they are referring to is hardly democratic and likely top down  from the govt like capitalism is.</blockquote>