Yes, he also supports forcefully cooperativizing companies over time. He wanted to create a program to gradually have a federally backed buyout of the largest 1000 U.S companies, with mandatory partial worker ownership of any company over a certain number of employees, and mandatory votes for the corporate boards for workers.
I mean I agree it’s a good idea of course. I just wanted to make the point that Bernie and AOC are, in fact, socialists. Way too many people from all sides of the political spectrum think “Oh he just wants to be like Denmark he’s not really socialist” or “Bernie would be right wing in Europe” just because the media didn’t really ever cover his cooperativization plan or talk of workplace democracy.
I mean, he does argue for worker co-ops, yes.
Yes, he also supports forcefully cooperativizing companies over time. He wanted to create a program to gradually have a federally backed buyout of the largest 1000 U.S companies, with mandatory partial worker ownership of any company over a certain number of employees, and mandatory votes for the corporate boards for workers.
Here was the plan from the campaign.
Sounds like a great idea.
It also sounds like socialism.
I mean I agree it’s a good idea of course. I just wanted to make the point that Bernie and AOC are, in fact, socialists. Way too many people from all sides of the political spectrum think “Oh he just wants to be like Denmark he’s not really socialist” or “Bernie would be right wing in Europe” just because the media didn’t really ever cover his cooperativization plan or talk of workplace democracy.