If each of us organizes in our local communities and gets people to pool the small amount of wealth that they have together to form a co-op where the leader is elected by the people who joined, and then all of these co-ops join together and each of the leaders elects a leader, and continue this process until we have the working class of the country join this, then all the control is in the hands of the workers who can then directly vote to purchase important companies like homebuilders, food producers, etc. would this not pull the commanding heights away from capital and into the hands of the workers (replicating China's tiered merit system. If existing capital tries to stop it, as they inevitably will, then we have justification for revolution and the leaders of these co-ops can become the new vanguard. Am I just to naive to believe that this actually has a chance at doing anything or do I have a viable strategy. If not where did I go wrong and what could be improved (or should the whole thing just be scrapped)
That's basically what the Germans did in 1920s Council Communism.
Capitalism was easily able to defang it by creating rival bourgeois councils. Currently we call them "Chamber of Commerce" and they're one of the main forces behind local reactionary politics. They formed a good base for the Nazis.
Do you mean the regional Handelskammer? I'd be interested in learning more about that history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_workers%27_and_soldiers%27_councils_1918%E2%80%931919
This movement. The right-wing response was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Citizens%27_Council
Thanks!