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teokajlibroj 's review for:
Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
by Richard D. Wolff
I am interested in WSDEs but this book does a poor job of explaining them. For a start, the first two-thirds of this book has nothing to do with WSDEs, in fact they aren't even mentioned. Instead we get a half-hearted Marxist summary of the New Deal and 2008 Financial Crash. If you've read any left wing discussion of the topic, you won't find anything new, instead there is just repetition of the usual Marxist talking points.
The section on WSDEs is incredibly short and vague. It is never properly discussed how they would function, there is no discussion of how they worked in practice or any studies of the topic. Any problems are dismissed with vague hand waving and a confident claim that in the utopian future, all problems will be solved. How will WSDEs deal with new technology or environment problems? Wolff doesn't answer, he just tells us the workers and community will decide how to solve it. He also takes it for granted that in the future, all workers will be socialists and fully support WSDEs and want them to function according to socialist theory, he never considers that workers may have other opinions.
The section on WSDEs is incredibly short and vague. It is never properly discussed how they would function, there is no discussion of how they worked in practice or any studies of the topic. Any problems are dismissed with vague hand waving and a confident claim that in the utopian future, all problems will be solved. How will WSDEs deal with new technology or environment problems? Wolff doesn't answer, he just tells us the workers and community will decide how to solve it. He also takes it for granted that in the future, all workers will be socialists and fully support WSDEs and want them to function according to socialist theory, he never considers that workers may have other opinions.