▲ 309 ▼ Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires (jacobin.com) submitted 9 months ago by HailSeitan@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 24 comments fedilink hide all child comments Co-ops are often dismissed as attempts to create islands of socialism. But building democratically controlled tech infrastructure can be part of a wider movement for working-class power.
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 point 9 months ago (1 child) Added a bit on that. 😊 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 9 months ago This is why this battle has to go on multiple fronts. One is creating coops where and when possible. The other is unionizing existing corpos to gain labour power that can be leveraged to curb the oligarch's power. The third is fighting at the political level for state funding for coops and labour rights. I can get down with that permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 9 months ago This is why this battle has to go on multiple fronts. One is creating coops where and when possible. The other is unionizing existing corpos to gain labour power that can be leveraged to curb the oligarch's power. The third is fighting at the political level for state funding for coops and labour rights. I can get down with that permalink fedilink source parent