[henkster]

Like this is something new. In the fall of 1980, I took my senior seminar in "Comparative Political Systems" at Indiana University. It should have been called "Soviet Communism Here and Now," as the professor spent the class touting "workers controlling the means of production" and other BS. He'd obviously never worked a day outside academia. I was working my way through college doing commercial construction, and I knew what would happen if you tried to turn he "means of production" over to the guys I worked with.

I wish I'd had the balls to agree with the professor, advocate turning the "means of production" of grades over to the students, voting ourselves A+ grades, and ending the farce of a class.

Now, 35 years later, I realize too many of my colleagues bought into it and they hold high political office in both parties.

[ChicagahAl]

"workers controlling the means of production"

Similar experience; working factory labor jobs during the Summer, between college academic years, in the 60's.

The companies where I worked, were happy to hire college students as Summer help, in the hopes that we might return after graduation, to work in management, engineering, finance, etc.

The average factory workers may have been hard-working, decent people; but they certainly weren't anyone you would want playing plant-manager.

Even worse today is the political left's move from Communism toward Fascism. Our left-wing Prof's have become bureaucrats with the power to dictate how private companies can and cannot do business; total control without the government having to bother with "owning the means of production".