Children of the intelligentsia go to better schools and attain university degrees in higher proportion. Only intellectuals and their dependents gain entry to special hospitals providing outstanding care for state and party officials. Even the cafeterias of institutions employing mostly intellectuals offer better meals than factory canteens. In coordinatorism, capitalists are gone. Managers, planners, engineers, and other intellectuals define work, using either central planning or markets for allocation.
Workers continue to carry out tasks defined by others.
Ironically, these words that Marx wrote to describe capitalism apply as well to coordinatorism. Workers do not affirm themselves in their work. They do not feel content but unhappy. The contest between the U.S. and the Soviet economic systems has always been largely irrelevant for workers since neither system serves them and both oppress them. But the promise of economic liberation has always been to distribute productive responsibilities so that everyone has a fair share of opportunities for performing conceptual and executionary labor with all workers thereby entitled and prepared to play a proportionate role in determining events.