Worker Cooperatives Proposed By Some Marxists And Quran 43:32
Thank you Umer sahab! Just to be clear, the Marxist definition of class is the group of people with a certain defined relationship to the surplus being produced by a given mode of production. For example, in capitalism, the capitalist class appropriates the surplus value produced in a factory, where as the working class gets a portion of it in form of wages. So in Marxist terms, the industrial workers, service workers, logistics, transport, and agricultural workers, gig economy and precarious workers, administrative and clerical workers, etc. are not different classes. They’re different sections of same classes. We know as per the findings and research of anthropologists and economic historians that hunter gatherer societies were egalitarian and shared resources based on mutual cooperation. And very importantly, they constitute about 95% of human history. Then came the neolithic revolution i.e the agricultural revolution, which ushered in the age of classes in human societies. Later came in feudalism, slavery, asiatic mode of production, and now capitalism. All these form the rest 5% and we’re here now.