ABSTRACT
The workers have to agree in order to exist, for their only means of livelihood is the sale of their labour power. To speak of workers' control within the framework of capitalist production can mean only control of their own organisations, for capitalism implies that the workers are deprived of all effective social control. The revolutions released by World War One were the result of catastrophic conditions in the weaker imperialist powers and they raised, for the first time, the question of workers' control and the actualisation of socialism as a real possibility. Although the Bolsheviks won with the slogan, 'All power to the soviets', the Bolshevik government reduced its content to that of 'workers' control'. Workers' control of production is seen as such a 'non-reformist reform' precisely because it cannot be established in capitalism. Workers' control excludes class-collaboration; it cannot partake in but instead abolishes the system of capital production.
