Socialization Proposals: The Aspect of Labor Participation

Jürgen Backhaus () and Ursula Backhaus ()

A chapter in The First Socialization Debate (1918) and Early Efforts Towards Socialization, 2019, pp 61-73 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract After WWI, a unique opportunity arose for the introduction of socialism in Germany. The First Socialization Commission of the coal industry, installed right after WWI, was a think tank of socialist and liberal economists who thought about ways to introduce socialism in Germany. Embedded in the larger question of how to organize the State and the economy, the issue of participation of workers, consumers, and other groups of society arose. How the issue of labor participation was treated is the topic of the first part, a brief summary of the later critical evaluation of socialism follows in the second part, before the detailed accounts of Eduard Heimann’s and Karl Korsch’s ideas on labor participation is laid out. Heimann, the secretary of the First Socialization Commission, made early theoretical contributions in the context of discussing participatory issues, for instance to the entrepreneurial wage and the theory of the firm. The chapter ends with a summary and conclusions.

Keywords: First socialization commission; Eduard Heimann (1889–1967); Entrepreneurial wage; Karl Korsch (1886–1961); Socialism; Labor participation; Theory of the firm; A10; B10; B14; H10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15024-2_5

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