The biggest idea was intrigued by here was radical democracy, which in this context means that only workers have any say in the ways they work and the ways that any surplus (profits) from their work are spent at their place of work. There are no boards, no shareholders, no owners unless you are doing the work day to day. Wolff calls this structure a worker self directed enterprise (WSDE).
Wolff compares the socialism we’ve seen not to true socialism, but to state run capitalism as the workers never had a say and everything was run from one central planning office. Those that ran these offices were in fact the “owners” and extracted vast sums of money for themselves turning in the oligarch’s we lament from socialist governments.
I found the book easy to follow without lacking depth so I recommend it.
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