Contents: 1. Production modes, Marx's method and the feasible revolution -- 2. The coopererative firm as an alternative to the capital-owned business enterprise -- 3. A few advantages of economic democracy -- 4. Marx, Marxism and the cooperative movement -- 5. Recent criticisms of the labour...

The author’s point is that the greatest advantage of a democratic firm system is a major impulse to political democracy. The idea that economic democracy furthers political democracy will sound fairly obvious not only to students of historical materialism, but also to anyone believing that...