On the #workercoop side of the fence, going to do a little #coop movement history lesson, and then take a detour into the #DavidEllerman critique of the employment relationship/contract and how that informed, to a certain extent, the revival of worker co-ops in the US.

I 💖 when #DavidEllerman throws shade at #Marxism... 🤣

"Rather than showing how those governance rights are creatures of the employment contract (the master-servant relation), Marx did capitalist apologetics a huge favor by accepting their argument that those rights were part of the “private ownership of the means of production.” Accordingly, Marx then concluded that such private property had to be overthrown."

https://www.abolishhumanrentals.org/history/marxist-mischaracterization/

#Abolitionism typically means, abolish slavery.

Possibly also a reference to #neoabolitionism in the sense #DavidEllerman used it? (Correct me if wrong.)

http://www.thestraddler.com/201715/piece2.php

You'll like it. An interesting moral argument for worker-ownership. New to me, heard through a #Coop MOOC earlier this year.

Essentially claims Marx's #LTV Labour Theory of Value took a wrong turn and became morally equivalent to merely advocating better terms for slavery (== employment).

@Antanicus @mattcropp

-- #DavidEllerman

Good interview with him on the critique of #HumanRentals, among other topics: http://www.thestraddler.com/201715/piece2.php