I'm #ActuallyAutistic, and I want to see a worker-controlled community where the labor process isn’t dictated by rigid hierarchies or managers running some Taylorist algorithm. Imagine abolishing those antiquated top-down structures and running things through federated councils, real participatory democracy, not just a suggestion box theater.
My ideal workday would be one where I’ve got agency over what I do because I’m collaborating with comrades in the union, actively practicing collective self-management, and making decisions by consensus (shoutout to all the meeting minutes, voting procedures, and all the Parecon spreadsheets). Work allocation rotates, responsibilities are balanced, and nobody’s stuck optimizing a Gantt chart for someone else’s profit margin.
With rigid hierarchies intact, there’s no meaningful praxis of democracy. It’s always a one-way mirror, decisions handed down, labor alienated, surplus value siphoned off to distant capital. The material outcomes of our work should strengthen our community, not some absentee shareholders whose only connection to our lives is a quarterly earnings call.
Do I enjoy working? Definitely. But in a world built on genuine worker self-management, where we plan, balance, and carry out decisions together, I’d enjoy it just a little bit more.
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