Meanwhile on the other side of the world of capitalist self-destruction, this is a wonderful half-hour documentary of hope. In Chinese, the word “crisis” can be translated as “dangerous opportunity”. When these workers were on the verge of losing their jobs because their factory was closing, they took matters into their own hands. They restarted production using direct democracy and participatory economics. The subtitle of their organization is “zero bosses, zero exploitation, zero pollution.”
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