After centuries of capitalism gestating, evolving, and maturing into the system we know it as today, there is simply no reasonable justification as to why the working class should not own the means of production and hold them in common. Under the current international regime, the means of production are owned privately by individuals who wield them in any way which they see fit (of course subject to regulations). This chaotic system, whereby private individuals with different but self-centered and short-sighted motives push the economy towards crisis after crisis is simply not sustainable and is ultimately slated for its own destruction.
Alternatively, an association of workers who own the
I read "The Concept of the Political" by Carl Schmitt recently and I find some parts of his analysis of liberalism and what exactly the political as such is helpful, but I feel like his critique hasn't really been developed elsewhere by anyone else. Just as well, I read the piece because I was interested in finding a good definition, working or otherwise, for what the political as such is and, again, while helpful, I feel like the whole friend/enemy thing is (1) sorta too Hobbesian for my taste and (2) doesn't seem like a widely accepted conceptual understanding.
So is this guy useful? meaning are there articles and thinkers that build on his ideas from this piece and further develop/updat
