Autogestion

Imaginary definition

Autogestion: Traffic congestion that makes drivers and commuters secretly think about revolting against clocks and labor systems. It is often accompanied by indigestion, regardless of how much or what has been consumed, but studies have been inconclusive regarding its source. It has been suggested that it's the result of a discomforting combination of extended vehicular queueing and compulsive as well as untimely consumption of food, beverages, and useless goods and services. There have been reports of chain vomiting in long traffic lines but they are unverified and considered an urban myth by many sceptics. However, autogestion is taken seriously by the authorities, who try to find workarounds and give incentives to the labor force to prevent it from thinking while commuting or in general.

Actual Definition

(a) Workers' self-management. It includes workers' collectives and cooperatives and it is connected to syndicalism. Classical economic philosophers, such as Stuart Mills (liberal) and Karl Marx noted the efficiency of the model. Funnily enough, while Mills believed that companies run by autogestion would eventually displace capital-managed firms, Marx didn't.

(b) (The construction of) a self-managed economy. Closely connected to the notion of social democracy, autogestion in this context aims at building an economic system that will avoid the inequalities, irrationalities and crises created by capital- and profit-driven economic models.

Where we came across it in its mundane sense

Mentioned in Kanishka Koonewardena's essay "Space"(in Keywords for Radicals).