A World to Build by Marta Harnecker

Author:Marta Harnecker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2015-03-11T04:00:00+00:00

CHANGING THE RELATIONS OF PRODUCTION

These Latin American governments are capable of going about implementing a coherent strategy toward changing the relations of production. However, these changes won’t happen overnight. It is a complex process that needs time. As Michael Lebowitz says: “It is not simply a matter of changing property ownership. This is the easiest part of building the new world. Far more difficult is changing productive relations, social relations in general, and attitudes and ideas.”81 It is therefore necessary to design a coherent strategy aimed at transforming the existing relations of production into the new relations that are the hallmark of 21st century socialism. The steps to be taken and the speed with which these can be implemented will depend on the starting point and on the existing balance of forces.

To explain this more clearly, I list below some of the steps that will have to be taken first, when dealing with state-owned companies, second, when dealing with cooperatives, and third, when dealing with capitalist companies.

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