Louis wrote:

> But seeing these things as an alternative to capitalism is just absurd.

Louis is spot on in his implicit assumption that the perfect
alternative to capitalism can only be found in the realm of
ideological fantasy, something that requires at most a modicum of
chemical neural stimulation.  It's only if or when we are forced to
locate the real-world, imperfect alternative to capitalism in the
*existing social conditions* -- to then build from such -- that we
turn to unions, cooperatives, and other not-very-sexy instruments of
collective workers' action as they are.
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