ABSTRACT
A strategy aimed at greater democratic participation in economic affairs and a more equitable distribution of economic wealth must deal with the dominant role of the large corporation in American society. In the United States, policies for controlling or influencing the behavior of corporations in a desired direction fall generally into four categories: antitrust, regulation, collective bargaining, and subsidies and incentives. Antitrust is a criminologist approach to economics. In 1972, the congressional Joint Economic Committee undertook an extensive study of federal subsidy programs. The results of the inquiry revealed that federal subsidies constitute an incredibly diversified and pervasive system of economic assistance to the private economy. At the CFDTs national congress in May 1970, it adopted autogestion as its primary objective, and socialism autogestionaire became the official union platform; it was adopted soon after by the revived United Socialist Party headed by Franois Mitterand.
