Michael,

you wrote on the Utah energy list (but I am copying my reply
also to pen-l):

> If you want workers to have more control over production,
> I believe you need a different term and phrase.  Is there
> another way to word it?

I want workers to have control over production, not "more"
control as you say but full control.  At this time this is
not an achievable objective, therefore it does not matter
how I phrase it, it will not happen.

At the present time I want workers to start thinking that
they *should* have and *must* have control over production.
This is a big taboo for workers, they consider it management
prerogative.  How am I trying to break through this taboo?
The argument is that capitalists are looting and squandering
natural resources to the detriment of the population at
large.  Maybe I should have written "God-given" natural
resources, because it is clear that natural resources do not
belong to the capitalists but to everyone.  I am trying to
argue that through environmental degradation and
devastation, the capitalists have lost the right to control
the means of production.  I think this is the strategic
issue where the environmental movement and the labor
movement can come together.

Hans
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