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'I would argue that open source begins to show a way, insofar as effectively the worker as individual owns the means of production (owns, meaning here, "has the right to utilize or direct utilization of").'

I would recommend reading up on the Cooperative movement, if you haven't.

'google "Emilia-Romagna Manufacturing"'

I did, but I'm not sure I'm getting relevant results. Could you expand on this?

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I am familiar with the Cooperative movement.

Regarding manufacturing in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, it tends to be based on the same sorts of informal collectives that open source utilizes, but in heavy manufacturing with many small shops working together on specific projects to compete with large manufacturing firms.

The model is very successful there and it allows for large numbers of small businesses to take on big businesses by working cooperatively.

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