Workers’ self-governance sought to abolish the wage relationship and production for profit

Evidence

The primary goals of the Red Biennium were to abolish the exploitative wage relationship in favor of horizontal participation in production and to abolish production for profit in favor of production for need. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 186

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in ‘the invisible order’ — the Red Biennium was precisely a case where capitalism’s arrangements stopped appearing as natural fact and became visible as political choices. — connects to: Works councils failed to dominate as workers’ representatives by the late 1950s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2072; Cooperatives redirected surplus from capital owners to the workers themselves; Italian worker cooperatives explicitly framed self-management as a path to communism — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 423 (+12 more)