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If we would like to give a short characterization of the contempo-rary workers self-management system in our midst, we would say that it has the characteristics:

a)    legał formalism

b)    anti-functional as regards the social function of productive orga-nizations

c)    middle class liberalism regarding the market and self-rcgulation of economic development

d)    combination of self-managing organizations on a horizontal piane with an statist power structure on a vertical piane.

Generally we are speaking here of a concept that remains in the framework of democratic-liberal theory, which has not as yet reached the level of a democratically humanistic and functional organization of producers. (In the near futurę I will deal with this matter morę extensively.)

WHEN WORKERS SELF MANAGEMENT TURNS AGAINST

THE WORKING CLASS

One of the most obvious (negative) consequences of legał formalism for the workers self-management was the legał and business-like equalization of productive and mediating organizations, that is to say, those who produce the surplus of wealth and those who have this sur-plus at their disposal in the form of working Capital (banks, trade, foreign trade enterprises). This legał equalization has quickly brought about a State of affairs where mediator organizations under the con-ditions of the market economy assumed the control of the producing organizations and started to mercilessly exploit them. Economic reform brought many producing organizations into difficult positions and madę it easy for financial organizations to assume monopoly positions. While banks and trading served in an earlier period in the development of industrial production, now industrial production ser-ves the strengthening of the power of financial centers, naturally against the interests of the working class and a healthy economic dev-elopment policy. The results of dysfunctional and legal-formalistic equalization of producing and mediating organizations were as fol-lows:

a)    that mediating organizations acquired a monopolistic relation-ship towards producing organizations;

b)    that monopolistic mediating organizations started to Ulegały draw off profits from the producing organizations (a legislature report from Federal Assembly commission States that the financial trade Capital »brutally exploits the existing shortage of money for regencra-tion and acquires an usurious crude, early capitalistic profit logie. In some places it assumes such dimensions and forms that it astounds businessmen from contemporary capitalist economies«);

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