II - Socialization of the Means of Production

·        The Socialist Program calls for the "nationalization "of certain types of enterprises which will then be gradually integrated into the self-managing regime.

·        To attain this objective "many options are conceivable":

a) "tripartite management " by "elected representatives of the workers, representatives of that State (or

regions), and representatives of certain types of consumers;"

b) "a management council elected entirely by the workers in the enterprise;"­

c) "the coexistence of a management council elected by the workers and a supervisory council which

would be made up of representatives of the State ...  and certain types of consumers" ("FifteenTheses," p. 12).

·        The SP claims that this "nationalization" is not synonymous with "state takeover" (cf. "Fifteen Theses," p. 12), nor does it result in "collectivism" crushing human liberty, because "workers and consumers are ... called to sit on the boards of nationalized enterprises," so that "the nalional[ized] corporations will have . . . all the autonomy of management that they will need " (MAUROY, "Debates," p. 81).