"Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes develop positive participatory schemes, sometimes not. We know from the studies of worker-owned plywood companies in the US, they can tend to develop conservative attitudes, not socialist attitudes. So even though I'm an advocate of further democratization of the workplace, we also need to be building larger structures."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Gar Alperovitz

#Attitude Quotes #Needs Quotes #Floating Quotes

“You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.”

Source : Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd
“No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to the food on our tables and the gas in our cars. There is always a price to be paid, she reminds us, for the pleasures and comforts of this day.Â If you read only one memoir this year, this is the one to read and pass along.”
“When you look at my campaign, I don't go around sugarcoating things.”

Source : "Shutdown Corner interview: Congressman-elect Jon Runyan". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. November 05, 2010.
“We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.”
“Whatever your personal political feelings are, if you become involved in them publicly you're bound to come out the loser.”
“I'm a lover of songs.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”

Source : "Lost souls". Book by Poppy Z. Brite, 1992.
“Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.”

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