Worker-run factories across Brazil and Argentina refute the necessity of private capital

Evidence

Meanwhile, workers operate more than fifty self-managed factories in Brazil and four hundred factories in Argentina. These are spaces that workers took over after their owners had decided to relocate or to shut them down. The idea that private capital is essential for production and investment is a myth. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 401

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Four hundred self-managed factories in Argentina alone is a dense empirical counterweight to the common assumption that production collapses without owners — a load-bearing strike against the invisible order’s core naturalization of private capital.
• XREF: connects to: Capital confers power over workers only when workers lack land alternatives — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 254; Worker demands arise from outside capital’s own logic. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 455