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- Subject: ORGANIZED THOUGHTS
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- Name of Publication: ORGANIZED THOUGHTS
- Frequency: variable (approx. monthly or bimonthly)
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- Address all correspondence to m.lepore@genie.geis.com
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- ORGANIZED THOUGHTS is a new forum for discussing Industrial Democracy,
- a proposed socioeconomic system based on collective ownership and
- democratic control of the industries and services.
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- The goal is direct majority-vote control of the workplace by the
- workers, as opposed to political solutions which call for
- administration through a "vanguard party" or a "workers' state". The
- focus is on abolition of the wage system, NOT on getting rid of the
- capitalist only to be exploited instead by government bureaucrats.
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- We need to transcend the limitations of today's craft unionism, which
- divides workers according to trade and jurisdiction, instead of
- uniting us. Our focus is on the Industrial Union program, which calls
- for a workplace-based association of the entire working class.
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- The goal is much more than "a living wage". The goal is to create
- workers' self-management in a classless society.
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- Most of the arguments in this journal come from either a Wobbly
- (syndicalist) or a Marxist-DeLeonist perspective.
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- Issue Date of Line Byte
- Number Publication Count Count
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- 1 Jun 05, 1992 551 27609
- 2 Aug 07, 1992 793 41798
- 3 Sep 07, 1992 521 28727
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- Issue
- Number Description
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- 1 An introductory essay by Yours Truly, plus position
- statements by four unaffiliated organizations which
- advocate the Industrial Union program: The
- Industrial Union Party, the New Union Party, the
- De Leonist Society, and the Industrial Workers of
- the World.
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- 2 The Worker-Owned Corporation -- a debate. John M.
- Bailey explains his WOC proposal, and debates its
- merits with two advocates of the traditional
- Industrial Union program.
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- 3 "As We See It", a statement issued by Philadelphia
- Solidarity. A commentary on economic measurements
- in constant-dollars. Book Review: _The Scapegoat_
- by Mary Lee Settle. "Materialist Conception of
- History" -- a 1911 essay by Daniel De Leon.
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- Mike Lepore
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