David Schweickart's Socialism Of Economic Democracy Theory Commentary

David Schweickart from the popular speech of"capitalism can not be replaced"shows us that there is lots of the institutional shortcomings existing in the capitalist society, such like economic inequality, lack of effective civil working right protection and the deterioration of ecological environment. These shortcomings can not be avoided under the capitalist society.For all the shortcomings of capitalism, David Schweickart based on the theory of the market's socialism shows the"economy democratic socialist"theory. This theory gets the workers self-management, markets and social control of investment together. It is for the undemocratic phenomenon of the capitalist social. Workers self-management that the workers of the factory responsible for the operation of all equipment, factory organization, rules and regulations, production technology, product variety and production and how the distribution and so are the democratic decision by the workers. Although the workers control the workplace, but they do not have ownership of the enterprise, the enterprise is seen as collective property of society; investment in social control, layman's terms is that democratic decision by the workers, the distribution of social surplus value by social control investment, investment funds from the enterprise,"capital assets tax", this tax can be viewed as capital assets of enterprise workers belong to the whole society for the use of public property of all the rent paid. Schweickart's theory is not perfect now, the biggest defect is that there is no practical support for the theory what eventually led to his theory could not escape the fate of"fantasy". Even so, his spirit of dareing to seek truth is that we can learn at the same time: in the present times of materialistic capitalism growing louder, the socialist environment of depressed mood, his economic democratic socialist theory plays a positive role to the revival of the Marx. Although Schweickart's economic democracy theory has many shortcomings, but we can absorb its essence. This theory will be combined with China's reality and, ultimately, used by China's economic development.