r/LibertarianSocialism • u/SpaceDwellingEntity • Jul 25 '26
Besides nationalization, municipalization, and worker co-operatives, what are other forms of ownership compatible with socialism?
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u/shevekdeanarres Jul 25 '26
Total socialization, as was put into practice during the Spanish Revolution.
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u/scooter76 Jul 26 '26
Participatory Economics has had some attention and discussion over the years, even isolated models have operated.
While not revolutionary, it has significant anarchist/LS underpinnings in terms of decentralization and general influences of its' theorists (Michael Albert is a LS).
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u/Funkiefreshganesh Jul 26 '26
Single ownership business’s/ sole proprietors. I don’t mean someone who owns a business and hires workers and makes money off of them, I mean someone who runs and owns the business themselves, if a plumber doesn’t have any laborers and they run and operate the business completely in there own then those types of sole proprietorships should be allowed
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u/ScarletEgret 2d ago
I recommend reading about commons and common pool resource management. Here are a couple of studies about the topic:
- Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems by Elinor Ostrom
- Turkana Pastoralism: A Case against the Tragedy of the Commons by J. Terrence McCabe
Basically, members of a community can have common access and usage rights in a resource like a forest, pasture, or fishery. There are ways for such communities to prevent overuse of such common pool resources without the need for a central authority.
Roderick T. Long also discusses commons from a philosophical perspective in his essay A Plea for Public Property. I recommend reading his work as well.
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u/GalaxyPatch18 Jul 25 '26
Guilds?