Self-Management, Anarchism and Democracy

Abstract

Economic ideas do not exist in a political and ideological vacuum and it is therefore important to consider how the idea of self-management is related to various broader ideologies and to ask which ideologies, if any, provide a basis from which self-management as an economic system can rationally be supported. This leads one naturally to analyse the relationship between economic self-management and the wider political environment. In particular it is of interest to ask which interest groups are likely to support self-management and which to oppose it. This, in turn, leads to an analysis of how self-management might be promoted in existing societies. These are the issues dealt with in this chapter.