Reminder that the privatizations of the USSR were merely a criminal gang partitioning stolen assets among each other; the de-socialization should have entailed the creation of worker-coops according to syndicalist principles
(Now, before you go “Omg, worker-coops, that sounds like something a pinko would say…”, I realized this fact from none other than Hans-Hermann Hoppe)
The economy of the criminal USSR was one in which scarce means were allocated without any regard whatsoever to legitimate acquisition: it was one of an unprecedented large-scale theft and muddying of property title assignment.
Consequently, when the USSR collapsed and that the party members of the criminal gang known as the “Communist Party of the Soviet Union” partitioned the State’s assets among themselves, the injustice of the USSR’s large-scale theft was not corrected, only exacerbated.
What many may be suprised to hear is that anarcho-capitalists like Hans-Hermann Hoppe argued that the correct way to redistribute the State assets of the former USSR would have been to create worker-coops wherever no property claims could be found.
“In the case of East Germany — in contrast to that of the Soviet Union, for instance, — where the policy of expropriation started only some 40 years ago, where most land registers have been preserved, and where the practice of government authorized murder of private-property owners was relatively ‘moderate’, this measure would quickly result in the reprivatization of most, though by no means all, of East Germany. Regarding governmentally controlled resources that are not reclaimed in this way, syndicalist ideas should be implemented. Assets should become owned immediately by those who use them-the farmland by the farmers, the factories by the workers, the streets by the street workers, the schools by the teachers, the bureaus by the bureaucrats (insofar as they are not subject to criminal prosecution), and so on.37 To break up the mostly over-sized East German production conglomerates, the syndicalist principle should be applied to those production units in which a given individual’s work is actually performed, i.e., to individual office buildings, schools, streets or blocks of streets, factories and farms. Unlike syndicalism, yet of the utmost importance, the so acquired individual property shares should be freely tradeable and a stock market established, so as to allow a separation of the functions of owner-capitalists and non-owning employees, and the smooth and continuous transfer of assets from less into more value-productive hands.” – Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
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