#cooperativism

[ev1tales]

Announcement

Hi tumblr folks, we're moving to the sunbeam.city server on Mastodon, a distributed social network organised in federated servers.

Sunbeam.city is a solarpunk-themed anticapitalist server organised as a cooperative that actively refuses access to nazis, fascists and capitalism/greenwashing apologists. It's our new home now.

We won't be deleting the stuff we reblogged here because it's not worth the effort, but we will no longer be posting here.

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[teledyn]

The Take (documentary)

Awoke this morning to find the director and co-writer (w/ partner Naomi Klein) of the above following me on Fediverse. Returning the follow I learn, among other activisms, he's hoping to lead our beleaguered federal NDP out of their darkness

[luffymonkey1227]

Mutualism and Cooperativism: The Better Way Beyond Capitalism and Communism

When people talk about capitalism and communism, they usually talk in absolutes. One side says capitalism works and communism doesn’t. The other side says capitalism is a machine for exploitation while communism holds the key to fairness and equality. But looking around at the world today, it’s becoming harder to defend either as the one true answer. Both have failed in their own ways, and both…

Mutualism and Cooperativism: The Better Way Beyond Capitalism and Communism

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[aboutmondragon]

Mondragon provides us with a successful, working model. It’s not throwing out capitalism, it’s creating a better form of it. It is still private individuals who own capital, but more of us become owners. Companies are still getting wealthy, but that wealth is put to better use. Rather than create a few rich people only to tax them on the back end, we allow everyone to get richer on the front end.

«Could Co-Ops Solve Income Inequality?» @ Craftsmanship.net

[aboutmondragon]

What founders do come to study the model might put it into practice, but if they only create one cooperative that benefits 100 workers, Lorenzo says they miss the point. They need to create a network of them to fund new startups, create new jobs, provide social services, and transfer workers between companies. It is the combination of cooperatives that makes the whole thing self-sustaining, not the individual ones. 

«Could Co-Ops Solve Income Inequality?» @ Craftsmanship.net

[aboutmondragon]

When I published an essay about employee ownership, one person commented: “Why the hell should anybody still start a company and want to become an entrepreneur when he needs to give stocks to every employee he hires? This is completely stupid. If you want to become rich, become an entrepreneur.” Mondragon is a different mindset. “We feel that our collective ‘us’ is more important than ‘me,’ but they are more independent, individualistic people,” Lorenzo says. “So it takes some time to really convince people that this system is worthwhile. They see sometimes that we are a compromise for a full life, so we have to think in new ways, adapt our system.”

«Could Co-Ops Solve Income Inequality?» @ Craftsmanship.net

[aboutmondragon]

For this to work, of course, the employees need to learn how to run their businesses, some of which are multi-billion-dollar global enterprises. That’s why Mondragon puts extraordinary amounts of time and resources into worker training, which it considers the sine qua non of co-op success.

«Could Co-Ops Solve Income Inequality?» @ Craftsmanship.net