With regard to the economy, each workplace is run by it's own worker assembly which meets regularly and makes all major decisions about the workplace. Everyone has an equal say in those decisions, which are made using either consensus or direct democracy (or some mixture of the two). Assemblies divvy up the tasks and plan what they are going to do. Historically they have also elected a factory committee that takes care of administration and coordination. The factory committees simply implement policy decided by the assembly where decision-making power stayed.

Coordination of the economy can be done through a system of horizontal networks or worker councils. The tradition way of doing this is for each assembly to assign a contact person(s) (sometimes called a spoke or delegate) to meet with other contact people from other assemblies which they want to coordinate things with. Position of contact person should rotate frequently. Each contact person is mandated, meaning that they are instructed by the assembly that they come from on how to deal with any issue. The contact people would be given binding instruc ... read more

"What I assert is that even in the most general terms, the progressive movement has not come up with any alternative at all that is suitable in any way, shape or form for anyone who has not received a lobotomy." "This is why all activists who are serious about a fundamental change to the status quo--need to also be serious about overcoming the crisis of theory." "Eventually the progressive movement will mobilize the majority of humanity for the purpose of overthrowing the rule of the rich. This mobilization will only take place once the progressive movement works out at least an outline of the principles that will guide an alternative to bourgeois rule that is suitable for people who are adults and who have not had a lobotomy--an alternative that actually makes sense--that does not insult the intelligence of activists and workers alike."

"Industrial Unionism is the socialist republic in the making; and, the goal once reached, the Industrial Union is the socialist republic in operation. Accordingly, the Industrial Union is at once the battering ram with which to pound down the fortress of capitalism, and the successor of the capitalist social structure itself." source: INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM (The Daily People Jan. 20, 1913)