Fixing the Economic Mess: a powerful, values-based alternative for putting people before profit The dominant economic system in the world today is brutally unjust. Come and explore a different, values-based economic model: the co-operative. Co-operatives represent a powerful way to organize the economy, distinct from both capitalism and communism. The purpose of a co-operative is mutual self-help: to enable the members to meet their own and each other’s needs. Typically waves of co-operatives are built in times of economic crisis. Today, across the world, the co-operative vision has come alive in dramatic & extremely diverse ways: from the highly participatory women-controlled neighbourhood co-operatives in Kerala, India, to the Brazilian Landless Movement’s occupations, to the hundreds of firms closing their doors (notably in Argentina) which are being seized by their workers & turned into worker co-operatives, & to the many new co-ops being formed by immigrants in North America. The Golden Rule states that we are to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. The capitalist model, in contrast, unleashes greed with a vengeance while poor and working class people are increasingly marginalized. Explore with us the power of the co-operative model to transform people’s lives.
Arreglar el desastre económico. Una alternativa poderosa basada en los valores que antepone las personas al lucro The dominant economic system in the world today is brutally unjust. Come and explore a different, values-based economic model: the co-operative. Co-operatives represent a powerful way to organize the economy, distinct from both capitalism and communism. The purpose of a co-operative is mutual self-help: to enable the members to meet their own and each other’s needs. Typically waves of co-operatives are built in times of economic crisis. Today, across the world, the co-operative vision has come alive in dramatic & extremely diverse ways: from the highly participatory women-controlled neighbourhood co-operatives in Kerala, India, to the Brazilian Landless Movement’s occupations, to the hundreds of firms closing their doors (notably in Argentina) which are being seized by their workers & turned into worker co-operatives, & to the many new co-ops being formed by immigrants in North America. The Golden Rule states that we are to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. The capitalist model, in contrast, unleashes greed with a vengeance while poor and working class people are increasingly marginalized. Explore with us the power of the co-operative model to transform people’s lives.
Promoting the potential of the co-operative movement, primarily through popular culture.
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