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"During the Spanish Civil War, workers in occupied factories coordinated an entire wartime economy. Anarchist organizations that had been instrumental in bringing about the revolution, namely the CNT labor union, often provided the foundations for the new society. Especially in the industrial city of Barcelona, the CNT lent the structure for running a worker-controlled economy — a task for which it had been preparing years in advance. Each factory organized itself with its own chosen technical and administrative workers; factories in the same industry in every locality organized into the Local Federation of their particular industry; all the Local Federations of a locality organized themselves into a Local Economic Council “in which all the centers of production and services were represented”; and the local Federations and Councils organized into parallel National Federations of Industry and National Economic Federations.[49]
The Barcelona congress of all Catalan collectives, on August 28, 1937, provides an example of their coordinating activities and decisions. The collectivized shoe factories needed 2 million pesetas credit. Because of a shortage of leather, they had to cut down on hours, though they still paid all their workers full time salaries. The Economic Council studied the situation, and reported that there was no surplus of shoes. The congress agreed to grant credit to purchase leather and to modernize the factories in order to lower the prices of the shoes. Later, the Economic Council outlined plans to build an aluminum factory, which was necessary for the war effort. They had located available materials, secured the cooperation of chemists, engineers, and technicians, and decided to raise the money through the collectives. The congress also decided to mitigate urban unemployment by working out a plan with agricultural workers to bring new areas into cultivation with the help of unemployed workers from the cities."
In Valencia, the CNT organized the orange industry, with 270 committees in different towns and villages for growing, purchasing, packing, and exporting; in the process, they got rid of several thousand middlemen. In Laredo, the fishing industry was collectivized — workers expropriated the ships, cut out the middlemen who took all the profit, and used those profits to improve the ships and other equipment or to pay themselves. Catalunya’s textile industry employed 250,000 workers in scores of factories. During collectivization, they got rid of high-paid directors, increased their wages by 15%, reduced their hours from 60 to 40 hours per week, bought new machinery, and elected management committees.
In Catalunya, libertarian workers showed impressive results in maintaining the complex infrastructure of the industrial society they had taken over. The workers who had always been responsible for these jobs proved themselves capable of carrying on and even improving their work in the absence of bosses. “Without waiting for orders from anyone, the workers restored normal telephone service within three days [after heavy street fighting ended]... Once this crucial emergency work was finished a general membership meeting of telephone workers decided to collectivize the telephone system.”[50] The workers voted to raise the salaries of the lowest paid members. The gas, water, and electricity services were also collectivized. The collective managing water lowered rates by 50% and was still able to contribute large amounts of money to the anti-fascist militia committee. The railway workers collectivized the railroads, and where technicians in the railroads had fled, experienced workers were chosen as replacements. The replacements proved adequate despite their lack of formal schooling, because they had learned through the experience of working together with the technicians to maintain the lines.
socialism has literally worked
Seems legit
yes
legit is my name
/questions my political idealogy/
Trump is no Bueno
Factual
trump has been shit since he started his campaign
good read
He's a criminal whos manipulating the fundamentally broken system for personal gain
Dat is facts right there
He's getting paid by big pharma and fossil fuel
So that he votes for legislation in their favor
Mee6 agrees
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Who in their right mind would mock green energy, when it has the potential to create millions of jobs? Only someone who was being paid millions or even billions by big petroleum companies :))
Mee6 is the fbi tuning in, that's proof right there
if Trump really cared about illegal immigration, he would punish companies that hire illegals, instead of building a useless wall that only accounts for a minority of illegals that cross through the border
GG @Mariya Takeuchi, you just advanced to level 2!
US representatives do it all the time, and besides the ethics committee, it's completely legal. Trump, on the other hand, doesn't have an ethics committee <:ainz:538084033410891776>
Bot really agrees
MEE6 2020?
But actually that is correct, nobody would be against green energy at least at this point in time where massive breakthroughs are happening everywhere regarding green energy. At some point, it may not be soon, but at some point we will go 100% green energy. It's just a matter of time
And that time will be 2050. When we run out of oil. And the countries who advocated for green energy in 2019, unlike America, will be striving
So either we impeach trump or win this 2020 election, or say byebye to a future that isn't controlled by automation and a shortage of energy followed by mass unemployment
Exactly, even if you don't like green energy it makes no sense to devalue it in America. It is after all an entire industry, America is a country that used to keep as many cards as it could in hand. I don't remember the usa giving up on an industry this easily
i doubt trump will win, his approval rating is incredibly low
Yeah but I fear a repeat of 2016
@BlackHawk it’s not the same this time
even fox news acknowledges the low rating lol
I don't know man, 2016 was a shit show. Half the country was left reeling. The polls all said Trump was gonna flatline but states just kept going red
it's even lower than what Obama was