Its not a competition thing they just own everything so they can pay people like shit and keep the excess money for themselves, a co-op would make the same in profit since they would also have capital without parasitism. Walmart isn't more efficient they just pay people garbage wages
I mean no one even tries to establish co-ops anymore in areas not serviced by large corporations where they could undisputedly find success. Even a violent organizer for communism would want co-ops for a base of influence, but the communist movement is entirely taken over by neo-liberal chomskys
Justin Howard
Not always, but more often than not.
Also bribes and other criminal activity. It's kinda hard to keep things secret if you have to explain where did the $100k go or taking a vote on should we break the law and dump toxic waste somewhere illegal.
Fiery Pinto would've been practically impossible in an open society of co-op.
Joseph Walker
low profit industries requiring lot's of micro management, certain industries that are less capital intensive and more labor intensive i worked for a small pest control company and it makes sense that small bussinesses would do better in that sector
Parker Bell
You've got a very reductionist view of economics. There are restrictions and laws in place which are used to protect small businesses. Small businesses also can specialise and have unique selling points, be in unpopular locations etc etc.
Landon Gomez
That might be true by the number of businesses but large corporations dominate the landscape in sheer size and accumulation. Corporate wages account for 90% of the payroll in the US.
Isaiah Howard
The whole problem with this argument is that you base the supposed success of small business simply by the raw number of small businesses.
The simple number of small businesses is meaningless. What's important is the amount of the economy they control, which is minuscule. Well over half of all small businesses go out of business within the first 6 months, almost all the rest go out of business within the first two years. Only a small minority of small businesses last in the long term and an even smaller minority get big enough to provide the sort of comfortable lifestyle to the owner that bullshit liberal "rags-to-riches" stories promise.
Basically, it's a scam.
As for worker cooperatives, they tend to be larger, last longer, and be more productive than "traditional" businesses. The problem is that productivity has almost nothing to do with success in a capitalist market. It has everything to do with the ability to accumulate capital, which is hampered by the cooperative model. So, no, the Mutualist model doesn't work.
Mason Allen
Are you counting franchises as "small businesses?"
Daniel Murphy
This.
It would be like saying socialism is winning because there are more proles than bourgeoisie.
Ryder Lopez
He shills for worker owned businesses, you fucking stupid fucking faggot.
Zachary Price
America has a progressive taxation system, laws that try to prevent monopolies from forming and lots of regulations which are very favourable to small businesses (in the corporate form). An actual real left wing government could easily modify the framework to favour co-operatives if they wanted to
Marx deals with a hypothetical pure market economy with no intervention by the state.
Also concentration of capital in a financialized economy can't literally mean ownership by one entity but webs of control.
Also Marxs isn't hostile against co-operatives, they can work and succeed corporations but they're just not the end goal
