every reformist ment as Allende Chile and Mitterand tralised If the capitalists refuse to If this is done then the dustry, workers' co-op did, and the All blackmail simple laws capital. output, decision Jalwares. their companes.
pressure of, criteria its determine which bodies.
will tuese social neeas management was introducThere is of course a considerable. and totally legitimate, economic argu about economy is to be run. The totally cen of the type 111 -troduced into Stalinist Russia by the first Five Year Plan of 1929 is grotes. que both economically and politically and the first person to violently condemn it, incidentally, was not the Labour right wing but Leon Trotsky. There is absolutely no reason why, either in theory or practice, there shold not be a place within a socialist operatives, small personal firms, and even small scale capitalist production - indeed all are necessary and useful But you cannot run the railways, or the electricity plants, or the car inFor steel production Or a "small scale capitalist enterprise. "The _commor ownership of the means of produc tion, distribution and exchange', re mains the sole means whereby the basic large scale industry of society can be brought under its control. That is not dogma. It is just the truth.
And without it society remains subject to the most fundamental dic. tatorship of all — the dictatorship of The dictatorship that every affecting unemployment, living conditions, health and work is decided not by criteria human need but by, or under the criteria ot profit. Bi of the continuous 'extra parliamentary' dictates of capital and constant violence towards the health and minds of those who live on it. But Roy Hattersley is no socialist on that.
Which is why, finally, he's not even a democrat either.