Capitalist resistance in the democratization of business cooperations

Philipp Stehr’s talk titled "Capitalist resistance in the democratization of business cooperations" discusses action beyond the streets. With his paper, Stehr is filling current gapes in the debate on workplace democratization by building on Marx’s idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Shedding light on the underappreciated kind of problem of internal stability, Stehr demonstrates that transitional dictatorial forms of corporate government can, like the dictatorship of the proletariat, be justified from a democratic point of view. On his account, the developed corporate dictatorship of the workers is a worker-elected body that will take over the existing positions of authoritarian power within the corporation to further the goals of democratization and of resisting capitalist resistance.