<<My union has terribly disorganised meetings , important decisions made in meetings are usually ignored by the national organisation , if it wern't so I think the Union would have been defunct long ago.
<<If a gang like that ran a workplace it wouldn't be a work place.>>
That is exactly what my dad used to say. When I was 14 or 15, and began to learn about communism, I used to tell him the workers would take over his factory when the Revolution came. My dad used to laugh at this. He'd say it wouldn't take his workers two weeks to run the whole thing into the ground. And he really liked his workers.
I worked in the factory too when I was older, and I don't think he was too far off the mark. They were kind-hearted, good-natured people, with some real-life problems that the bourgeoisie would rarely if ever encounter, sons and husbands in jail, killed in the war, permanently injured on the job, etc. None of them seemed to have much aptitude for business and management, but it who knows - - throw them into the pool and some might have become swimmers. What it proved to me was the need for the dictatorship of the proletariat. Taking over the factory was one thing, running it was something else.
This was the reason for vanguard theory. Left to its own devices, the working class, even if it won the Revolution, would inevitably go FUBAR. Things they owned (the means of production, in effect the entire country) would have to be run for them by a dictatorship run by the vanguard of the proletariat, i.e., by the Communist Party. The Party, as vanguard of the proletariat, would run the factory, but not on capitalist principles (greed, selfishness, private advantage) but on socialist ones (solidarity of the working class, from each according to his ability to each according to his needs, mutual aid and assistance.)
