Workers' Control versus "Co-Management"

To clarify, there are urgently important differences between real workers' control in an enterprise, which is an important transitional demand in the struggle against capitalism, and so-called "co-management" with the boss, which is a fraud against working people. I quote from a presentation I made earlier this month:

Now the Leninist tradition is that we are partisans of workers' control, and Lenin was uncompromising on the meaning of workers' control. It is not in any way related to co-management. I quote from Lenin's "Draft Regulations for Workers Control."

"Workers' control over the production, storage, purchase and sale of all products and raw materials shall be introduced in all industrial, commercial, banking, agricultural and other enterprises . . . Workers' control shall be exercised by all the workers and office employees of an enterprise, either directly, if the enterprise is small enough to permit it, or through their elected representatives, who shall be elected immediately at general meetings. . . . The elected representatives shall be given access to all books and documents and to all warehouses and stocks of materials, instruments and products, without exception. . . . The decisions of the elected representatives of the workers and office employees are binding upon the owners of enterprises and may be annulled only by trade unions and their congresses."

So, according to Lenin, not the bourgeoisie, not government bureaucrats representing the bourgeoisie, and not bourgeois managers, but workers, should run all the enterprises of any size. This is very different from co-management, that permanent alliance between workers and bosses, being pushed by the chavistas, a stance totally foreign to Leninism, which demonstrates that chavismo is completely consistent with capitalist rule.

Now the difference between Leninist workers' control and class-collaborationist co-management, is the difference between the liberation of our class and its continued enslavement. chavismo pushes co-management because the chavistas cannot conceive of a society without bosses, and so they lead the masses to chant, "Without co-management there is no revolution," which is the opposite of the truth.