Dewey’s industrial democracy meant ending capitalist hierarchy

Evidence

John Dewey was an advocate of industrial democracy, which, in Noam Chomsky’s (2003) words “means democratising production, commerce, and so on, which means eliminating the whole structure of capitalist hierarchy”. Chomsky terms Dewey a “radical” in this interview. In another essay, Chomsky (2013) says: “Dewey called for workers to be ‘masters of their own industrial fate’ and for all institutions to be brought under public control, including the means of production, exchange, publicity, transportation and communication. Short of this, Dewey argued, politics will remain ‘the shadow cast on society by big business.’ ” 42 This latter sentence also echoes Dewey (1916): “Sentimentally, it may seem harsh to say that the greatest evil of the present régime is not found in poverty and in the suffering which it entails, but in the fact that so many persons have callings which make no appeal to them, which are pursued simply for the money reward that accrues. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1065

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere asked whether welfare-state industrial societies can be democratized — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2361
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere asked whether welfare-state industrial societies can be democratized — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2361