If only reality would conform itself to the vision of intellectuals.
Any organization has those whose best work is in the work they know best how to do, not in judging the work (like management) they have no academic, professional or work experience in doing. Everyone cannot be everyone’s boss. It does not work.
If it did the kumbaya of the commune would already be the universally accepted preferred mode of life. It isn’t because it does not work.
Sorry, it the ideology that fails. Besides a strongman will always gain control and ensure its failure for all with he and his becoming the only "successes" to appear.
appears to be little more than worker-owned business co-operatives.
Workers in highly capital intensive industries would obtain ownership of far more capital than workers who happen to work in less capital intensive industries. Few workers are going to want to work in such industries as clothing or restaurants.
What if a worker owns part of a business decides to switch to a different industry? It will eventually become necessary in the long run to keep ownership and employment totally separate just as in capitalism.This will be necessary to permit free movement of labor and capital.
Or a bus driver who now is a multi-millionaire (after disarming the entire populace - for their own good!)
As with all things of the Left, this man is a true hypocrite, no different than the denizens of Hollywood, Wall St, Gore, DiCaprio, Congress, the Tech industry, and every other Limousine Liberal on the planet.
It’s real easy to be a Liberal if you’re loaded. It’s real easy to be a Marxist Economist if you’ve never held a real job, all of your theories are research based(because the places that practice this type of economics are doing it wrong), and you have a secure, tenured job where you can’t get fired. And you’ve never run a business.
Wolff probably tought a few lectures a week, has his grad assistants to most of his work, rest of the time he was figuring out what his next book is going to be about and flying all over the world on the Massachusetts taxpayer’s dime. He didn’t have a thing to worry about and he had an adoring student body.
I graduated from UMASS. It was bad enough when I was there, apparently it has only gotten worse.
There was a Democrat Senator Presidential candidate in the 70’s (forgot his name! it’s an age issue) that lost his Presidential bid and retired. He purchased a hotel/resort where he tried the ideals promoted by the communist author Wolfe. He went broke.
Later in an interview he stated that running a business and making payroll is a lot more difficult that first envisioned He said the co-op mentality was enjoyable but sometimes the boss has to be the boss.
The big problem is that even those who don’t think of themselves as Communists, or even Socialists, still accept the Marxian worldview of Class Struggle.
Wolfe is psych red. Dangerous to students and society.