EQUITISM:
¿A Danger of Demotivation?
GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.
Dear Reader,
I think that many capitalists
worry about their workers’ motivation.
Some seem to think that they
must keep workers poor and desperate in order to keep them working: low wages –
a very self-serving attitude for those capitalists who are obsessed with
profits at any cost.
Some of same would no doubt
think that the associated workers/producers in Equitist Citizen Stewardship
Equity socialized producers’ cooperatives will lack incentives to work.
But recall, such co-ops will
have to compete successfully to survive as such – compete
with other ‘Stewardship Equity’ cooperatives in their field of goods and/or
services, and compete with capitalist enterprises, producing for the same
markets.
Competition is perhaps the chief
among the economic checks and balances
central to the successful self-reproduction of a ‘political-economic
democracy’, as we envision it.
Monopoly is bad. As is oligopoly or near-monopoly.
Private capitalist monopolies
are horrible in their consequences.
State[-capitalist] monopolies
are the worst of all.
¿But beyond the competitive
struggle to survive and to thrive, economically, what can we foresee that would
motivate the associated producers in Equitist producers’ cooperatives to continue
to produce products and services growing in quantity, as needed, and growing in
quality/use-value, and to continue to grow the social forces of their production
[i.e., to grow their own labor-productivity]?
For each associated producer
in a ‘Citizen Stewardship Equity’ socialized producers’ cooperative, we
foresee four main motivations for continued and improving production and
productivity –
1. To sustain their livelihoods – to keep their
jobs – in the valued cooperative form of those jobs, much preferred to working
for a capitalist enterprise, for wages, with little say over working conditions
and job security, etc.;
2. To reproduce their valued work community, and
the valued quality of life and of solidarity which that community affords them,
versus the vicious, snake-pit ‘“war of each against all[ others, and against
self]”’ that is so typically encountered in capitalist enterprises today;
3. To participate in productive-force-increasing,
productivity-increasing innovations that will allow for shorter work-days,
hence for more disposable time for their “real of freedom” life with their families,
friends, and avocations. This is a far
different motivation for productive-force-growth than the capitalist motive – the
latter motive being to increase [unconsciously, relative surplus-value-based]
profitability, and may well accelerate productive-force-growth over that
generated by the capitalist profit motive, while avoiding the ulteriorities, anomalies
and perversions inherent in the capitalist motive for productivity advance;
4. To win out in ‘athleticistic’ competition
with other co-op “teams”, and with capitalist firms, e.g., those producing for
the same markets.
We suspect that
these four motivations will sustain and advance the quantity, where needed, as
well as the quality of social production – and the happiness of the majority
class – far more than does the capitalist profit motive, especially given that
motive’s predestined ‘humanocidal’ denouement in the ‘technodepreciation’-driven
profit-fall ‘descendence-phase’ of the capitalist system,
now nearing its historical paroxysm and death-throes.
We even suspect that majority
class preferences tied to these four motivations will make workers increasingly
‘unhireable’ by capitalist firms, as opportunities for ‘collective
self-employment’ in proliferating Stewardship cooperatives develops, over time,
in an Equitist ‘Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’,
as successor system to the, ‘self-«aufheben»-ating’, [state-]capitalist
systems now prevailing on this planet, so that capitalist firms
will gradually wither away, as their social obsolescence is
increasingly revealed.
It would be a profound mistake
to outlaw private capitalist wage-labor, to set up the state to
coercively suppress private capitalism, and to coercively force all workers –
including many lengthily and deeply capitalistically-conditioned workers, not
ready, willing or psychologically able to participate in the collective
self-management processes of a producers’ cooperative – to join a ‘Stewardship enterprise’.
Such a state would soon
either be overthrown, by the majority class, or would otherwise have to become
a state-bureaucratic tyranny; a totalitarian, terroristic police state.
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Regards,
Miguel
Detonacciones,
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