Obviously managers in a communist society won’t be bourgeoisie, right? But I imagine an organization in a communist society still needs people to coordinate everything, even if it’s run like a complete worker cooperative. So will they be elected by the workers? In that case, are they still workers?
Yeah. Under capitalism, managers are part of an undemocratic hierarchy where they cannot be fired by the workers they control. But having managers becomes important in large and complicated projects. So they will be workers too but they won’t be agents of the employer like they are today.
Do you see the elected leaders of a worker co-op in a capitalist country also as workers, or are they still bourgeoisie?
They are workers. A person is a bougie in the simplest sense if they own the means of production which union leaders don’t.
Are the leaders of a worker-cooperative corporation considered union leaders?