Workers’ self-management is associated with times of social transformation. The state may chose to either restrict self-management or facilitate it so the conflict is institutionalised and contained.

Thirty-eight years ago, a movement for ‘socially useful production’ pioneered practical approaches for more democratic technology development.

Human alienation will disappear through the withering away of commodity production and social division of labour, through the disappearance of private ownership of the means of production.