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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

beyond capitalism

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February 2, 2023

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 4

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There has been an effort to dissociate accumulation from distribution, resulting in a contradictory and confused understanding of the relation between the two in cooperatives, with very serious practical consequences. In this chapter we examine this nexus and all its implications, demonstrating the importance of understanding accumulation as a necessary element of rational economic behavior in cooperative enterprises, and revealing the distortions caused by failing to do so.

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January 17, 2023

Rojava-U.S. Co-op Exchange

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This is the 10 December 2022 phone bank and exchange between Americans and Rojava cooperator Kraker.

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November 7, 2022

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 2

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Essence, economic objective, and characteristics of the cooperative enterprise.Essence, economic objective, and characteristics of the cooperative enterprise.

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September 15, 2022

House of the Mondragon

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Dru is joined by Carmen Marcuello and Anjel Errasti, authors of some interesting publications about Mondragon's expansion abroad.

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September 8, 2022

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 1

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The first problem that a theory of the cooperative phenomenon must address is the lack of a scientific concept of the cooperative enterprise.

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July 28, 2022

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy

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Translator's introduction and preface to Louis Razeto Migliaro's book, Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy.

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June 16, 2022

Alanna Irving on Distributed Leadership and Infrastructures for Commoning

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In the latest episode of Frontiers of Commoning, I speak with Alanna Irving, Chief Operating Officer of Open Collective, a nonprofit that handles the complicated, messy administrative and financial work for small, often-underfunded collectives.

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February 15, 2022

A Crisis of Jurisdiction in the Economy

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An interview with Gopal Dayaneni on the Seed Commons and building community power for a just transition.