Chomsky

I've tried listening to Noam Chomsky a few times, and find him incredibly boring. However, once in a while, I see a quote from him that is intriguing, but I wouldn't want to ask him to clarify. :)

Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control.

Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.

- Noam Chomsky

Socialism, on the other hand, does not have a stellar record of avoiding autocratic control of social institutions. However, according to Wikipedia, Chomsky favors:

. . . a kind of voluntary socialism, that is, as libertarian socialist or anarcho-syndicalist or communist anarchist, in the tradition of, say, Bakunin and Kropotkin and others. They had in mind a highly organized form of society, but a society that was organized on the basis of organic units, organic communities. And generally, they meant by that the workplace and the neighborhood, and from those two basic units there could derive through federal arrangements a highly integrated kind of social organization which might be national or even international in scope. And these decisions could be made over a substantial range, but by delegates who are always part of the organic community from which they come, to which they return, and in which, in fact, they live.

I don't know enough about any of this to offer up intelligent points of view. How does autocratic capitalism with representational government evolve or resolve into voluntary socialism?

For that matter, what happens to autocratic capitalism when large numbers of people get enlightened and adopt the mission of creating a society the purpose of which is to support the highest possible evolution of its members? How does work, property, etc., get organized?