The shocking collection of stories is from events that happened in the immediate range of vision of an economic leader which present how the group of managers can obtain the ownership rights of the producing units they manage (be they cooperatives or state companies) by making use of the possibilities provided by the Transformation Act and the economic regulators and under what conditions does the privatization of state owned enterprises take place and how.

In this short paper the author replaces the alternative of state and/or private property by the basically new solution – the need to build the workers' councils as a system.

The author refers to concrete examples (the workers' councils of 1956 and partly the present Soviet experiments) and states that the establishment of the forms of workers' ownership is not only desirable but also possible.

Instead of the better known ecological aspects, here is focus on the markedly left-wing social policy of the Greens, as basic democracy (self-government) is just as an important element of the Green movement as environmental protection.