Socialist Progressives

I know from reading other Engels' work that the socialist plan is a worker-run government, however that would look under present conditions in the US. Probably different from what it might have looked like at the time Engels was writing. But yeah, we'd have to unchain the relationship that exists between the corporations and the government first. There is a school of thought that wants to move straight to a direct change of government to bring us to socialism, and another one that says that in order for that to be effective, we need to defang the power of the corporations and gotten rid of first. I've been reading about the Spanish Civil War, and evidently the reason Franco rose to power there was in part because the monopoly corporate forces still had too much power in society and managed to overturn the elected socialist government. I don't know if that answers your questions, but it is something I've been thinking about lately.

Hey, have you been going to OccupyMN? I have a socialist friend there who has been really involved in going there, you might have run into him. He gives people copies of the Communist Manifesto.