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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

beyond capitalism

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November 11, 2021

Mapping the US Solidarity City

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Professor Maliha Safri discusser her research into post-capitalist economic organizing in NYC, and how people of color are forming and participating in a majority of the postcapitalist practices we studied in NYC.

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July 8, 2021

Feeding the Soul of DisCOs

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DisCOs are a possible and plausible catalyst for slipping out of today’s decaying economy, and creating true ecology within the economic framework.

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April 8, 2021

Katherine Gibson and the Community Economies Research Network

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One of the more spirited lines of research and action for building a post-capitalist future these days is coming from two related networks of international scholars -- the Community Economies Institute and an associated group, the Community Economies Research Network (CERN).   

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April 16, 2020

The Ideas That Are Lying Around

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We need to make some big changes to the way we think and act after covid-19.

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September 9, 2019

Solidarity Economy Roads

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In this chapter Razeto uses the analysis of solidarity economy developed to this point to make sense of the family as an economic unit and form of collective organization, and understand the roles of women as its main protagonists. The disintegration of the traditional family under industrial capitalism, with the rise of wage labor outside the home, the erosion of domestic and community economic activity, the creation of the nuclear family, and the concomitant changes in gender roles and the division of labor are shown to have aggravated inequality and damaged core relations of human solidarity.

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June 10, 2019

Solidarity Economy Roads

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Razeto starts with an analysis of two perennial sources of transformational energy: the “impoverished and untenable” situation of those who are marginalized and subordinate in the existing order, and the profound dissatisfaction of those better situated who nonetheless hope for a better society in which higher values and ideas are made real. Challenging the wide-spread notion of “system change,” the idea that “the existing social order – understood as a “system” – must be replaced by a different one: a new type of society,” Razeto critiques the focus on conquest of power, and the emphasis on politics as the “proper arena for the application of forces tending to the construction of a better society.”