The unique communities described in great detail in the recently published Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy are utopian in vision but thoroughly practical in their everyday functioning.
Investor Owned Firms will continue to seek regulatory treatment similar to cooperatives but without having to adhere to any type of democratic and fairness principles. Competitors of cooperatives can also be expected to search for ways to try to undermine member solidarity.
The purpose of this article is to share the concept of a Solidarity Economic Circuit as presented in Euclides Andre Mance’s 2022 curriculum Solidarity Economic Circuits and Economic Liberation – moving from capitalist economy to liberation economy.
The Organization of Brazilian Cooperatives (OCB) took a stand to support the UN Climate Summit, COP30, held in Belem, Brazil on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. The OCB issued a Manifesto outlining their many projects that support a truly sustainable society.
What appears to be a proof of the economic viability of the cooperative enterprise, turns out to be an argument for the potential of cooperativism, as part of a larger movement of movements, to constitute a force capable of overcoming the crisis of the State by re-founding political democracy on new, distributed and democratic foundations.
The author’s task here is to explain the functioning of a democratic market and how market democratization, actual perfect competition, might be achieved in the face of monopoly, oligopoly, centralization, and other anti-competitive phenomena.
