Co-ops are often dismissed as attempts to create islands of socialism. But building democratically controlled tech infrastructure can be part of a wider movement for working-class power.
Co-ops are often dismissed as attempts to create islands of socialism
I’m sold! When do we start?
Yeah, this shit. We CAN use capitalism against itself. Why the fuck aren’t we doing more of it? Nothing is stopping us from creating industrial collectives. Crowdsource that shit!
In some places it’s fairly common. Check out this network of 257 cooperatives in Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
Too few places. There’s a cluster in Italy as well.
The availability of capital for this type of organization, the capital concentration on the opposing side and its market power is what’s holding us back.
I’ll be really interesting to see how people try to hide the source of their wealth / power in a world where everything is co’oped.
Yeah I know. :(
If only there were a way to seize the means of production and redistribute the wealth…
Added a bit on that. 😊
This is why this battle has to go on multiple fronts. One is creating coops where and when possible. The other is unionizing existing corpos to gain labour power that can be leveraged to curb the oligarch’s power. The third is fighting at the political level for state funding for coops and labour rights.
I can get down with that
