self-management

Argentina: Poverty and the Militarization of Society (1990)

by Grupo Impulso Autogestionario

Rosario, Argentina

Received, translated and distributed April, 1990 by Charlatan Stew, Seattle, WA USA

Self-Management and the Spanish Revolution

1936 ~ 37

I

LIP AND THE SELF-MANAGED COUNTER-REVOLUTION

from Negation, No. 3 1973

Table of Contents
• Publication Notes
• Négation Introduction
• I. The Workers' Movement and its Decline
• 1. The Expropriation of the Expropriators
• 2. Dead Labor
• 3. Variable Capital and the Unions
• a. The CGT and Devalorization

Q: What are the main lessons you've learned from your experience?

For the traditional socialist "raising the standard of living" is the main purpose of social change. Capitalism allegedly cannot any longer develop production... It seems to be of secondary importance to this kind of socialist that under modern capitalism people are brutalised at work, manipulated in consumption and in leisure, their intellectual capacity stunted or their taste corrupted by a commercial culture. One must be "soft" it is implied, if one considers the systematic destruction of human beings to be worth a big song and dance.