The key idea in the firm, as in the economy generally, is cooperation not competition. The firm enjoys an autonomy with regard to public owners. Both government and private corporations pursue aims in honest collaboration with each other. Illustrations of collegial participation and economic democracy range from a typical large Japanese firm to the highly developed team control concept used in the production of Saab automobiles in Sweden. Inc. Milwaukee are cited.
American firms continue to be successful with worker ownership arrangements.
The size of the American economy does not require any restructuring to accomodate these experiments. The point to be made here is that democracy in the sense of having the capability to affect one's future is progressing gradually without any major revolution. Caribbean economies must necessarily tread carefully in this direction, taking advantage of worker participation in production whenever the possibility exists. Radical Marxists who follow in the tradition of Classical Liberalists consider that freedom and variety of experiences are the preconditions for human self realization. Rosa Luxemburg argued that only the active participation by the masses themselves in self government can bring about their spiritual transformation from conditions which have been degraded by centuries of bourgeois class rule.