#cooperativism

[aboutmondragon]

For this to work, of course, the employees need to learn how to run their businesses, some of which are multi-billion-dollar global enterprises. That’s why Mondragon puts extraordinary amounts of time and resources into worker training, which it considers the sine qua non of co-op success.

«Could Co-Ops Solve Income Inequality?» @ Craftsmanship.net

[russia-libertaire]

"Following the ideas of his fellow social critics Alexander Herzen and Mikhail Bakunin, Chernyshevsky believed that the existence of the peasant commune provided Russia with a unique opportunity to undertake this transformation [from tsarist feudalism to socialism] directly, without first having to experience the evils of capitalism. While not idealizing the commune, he argued that it could be transformed through advanced European technology and science, and through the ideas of such thinkers as Fourier, Considérant, and Robert Owen, into a highly productive cooperative agricultural community."

Michael Katz and William Wagner's introduction to What Is to Be Done?, by Nikolai Chernyshevsky

[unganseylike]

trc depicts a disturbing alternate reality in which a middle child is the favorite

[szczylpierdolony]

theres still a month until sesja starts and im already. so stressed out.

[felipeandletizia]

Felipe and Letizia retrospective: February 27th

2005: Arrival in Montevideo

2008: Audiences at la Zarzuela

2009: Audiences at la Zarzuela

2010: Attended the act of renewal of the Pledge to the Flag of the 44th Promotion of the General Military Academy on its 25th anniversary

2012: Inauguration of the Mobile World Congress 2012, “Mobile World Congress 2012”, and presentation of the Barcelona Mobile World Capital Foundation

2013: Audiences at la Zarzuela

2015: Visited “Tecnidex, Fruit Protection” company on its 35th anniversary; Received the High Distinction of the Generalitat Valenciana and of the Great Cross of the Order of Jaume I The Conqueror & Attended the closing of the 7th Congress of Agri-food Cooperativism

2017: Inaugurated “GSMA Mobile World Congress 2017” in Barcelona & Visited the new Cuatrecasas headquarters in Barcelona (1, 2)

2018: Audiences at la Zarzuela

2019: Official welcome to the President and First Lady of Peru, Martin Alberto Vizcarra and Maribel Díaz Cabello (1, 2, 3); Meeting with the President of Peru, Martin Alberto Vizcarra at la Zarzuela; Lunch& Gala dinner offered to the President and First Lady of Peru, Martin Alberto Vizcarra and Maribel Díaz Cabello. (1, 2, 3).

2020: Received Rodrigo Maia, President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, at la Zarzuela & Opening of ARCO 2020 (Contemporary Art Fair) at Ifema in Madrid

2022: Official dinner for the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona

F&L Through the Years: 919/??

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me SATURDAY (Apr 27) in MARIN COUNTY, then Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

#20yrsago Bill O’Reilly mistakes Globe and Mail for Socialist Worker https://web.archive.org/web/20040426005411/http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040421/DOYLE21/TPColumnists/

#20yrsago Silmarillion in 1,000 words https://web.archive.org/web/20060427200009/https://camwyn.livejournal.com/328358.html

#20yrsago London: The (Magnificent) Biography https://memex.craphound.com/2004/04/22/london-the-magnificent-biography/

#15yrsago UAE royal caught torturing man on video https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7402099

#15yrsago Joe Biden promises a blank check to the entertainment cartel https://web.archive.org/web/20110624055700/http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10224689-38.html

#15yrsago Entertainment industry’s greedy lobbying is their undoing https://web.archive.org/web/20090425083430/http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=175415&

#10yrsago Appeals court orders Obama administration to disclose the legal theory for assassination of Americans https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/obama-ordered-to-divulge-legal-basis-for-killing-americans-with-drones/

#10yrsago Shakespeare’s Beehive: analysis of newly discovered dictionary that Shakespeare owned and annotated https://endlessbookshelf.net/beehive.html

#10yrsago Reddit’s /r/technology demoted over scandal of secret censorship that blocked Internet freedom stories https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27100773

#5yrsago Facebook has hired the Patriot Act’s co-author and “day-to-day manager” to be its new general counsel https://thehill.com/policy/technology/440085-facebook-taps-lawyer-who-helped-write-patriot-act/

#5yrsago Google walkout organizers say they’re being retaliated against for demanding ethical standards https://www.wired.com/story/google-walkout-organizers-say-theyre-facing-retaliation/

#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren’s latest proposal: cancel student debt, make college free https://medium.com/@teamwarren/im-calling-for-something-truly-transformational-universal-free-public-college-and-cancellation-of-a246cd0f910f

#5yrsago Heiress “Instagram influencer” whose parents are accused of paying a $500K bribe to get her into USC has trademark application rejected for punctuation errors https://www.huffpost.com/entry/olivia-jade-trademark-punctuation_n_5c9c8f16e4b07c8866313c5e?ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__032919

#5yrsago Zuck turned American classrooms into nonconsensual laboratories for his pet educational theories, and now they’re rebelling https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/technology/silicon-valley-kansas-schools.html

#5yrsago Platform cooperativism (or, how to turn gig-economy jobs into $22.25/hour jobs) https://www.wired.com/story/when-workers-control-gig-economy/

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

High season for events in Foz do Iguaçu boosts the local economy in September

Brazilian Congress of Angiology and Vascular Surgery, BR+Coop 2024 and International Fish Congress bring together more than six thousand participants in the city

Foz do Iguaçu is hosting three major events in September, attracting more than six thousand participants and boosting the local economy. With events covering areas such as vascular medicine, cooperatives and aquaculture, the city is increasingly standing out as a reference destination for business tourism.

Until the 06th, the 45th Brazilian Congress of Angiology and Vascular Surgery brings together around 2.500 health professionals at Recanto Cataratas, including some of the most renowned vascular surgeons in the country. The event is an opportunity for scientific updates and exchange of experiences among specialists in the field.

BR+Coop 2024, from the 11th to the 13th of this month, will take place at the Grand Carimã Resort, exploring the potential of Brazilian cooperativism. With a focus on innovation, technology and sustainability, the event expects to attract around 1.500 people, including industry leaders, to discuss new practices and solutions linked to ESG.

On September 24, 25 and 26, the 40th International Fish Congress & Fish Expo Brazil - IFC, also at Recanto Cataratas, will bring to Foz do Iguaçu debates on the challenges and opportunities of the fish chain and generating business, with the presence of more than 18 speakers from 100 countries and more than XNUMX exhibitors. The event, recognized for its high level of debate and networking, promises to attract two thousand participants, including businesspeople, fish farmers, agents from the retail and food service markets, service providers, suppliers, managers, industry professionals and opinion makers.

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[perestroika-hilton]

Following quote is from gleaning the welfare fields this is just a really nice succinct history of peasant revolt under communism

"Resistance to State Extraction during the Socialist Period (1959-1978)

The current character of rural resistance has its roots in the socialist era. This cycle of struggle begins in 1959, the first year of the Great Leap Famine, when a rupture occurred between peasants and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which had developed widespread support in the countryside to various degrees over the previous three decades. Many members and even leaders of the party came from the peasantry, and the CCP’s guidance had proven successful at winning struggles against local elites that poor peasants had already attempted unsuccessfully on their own. Peasant support grew throughout the 1950s as CCP policies (such as land reform and cooperativization), coupled with the end of civil war, led to improvements in living standards.

All this fell apart with the return of famine in 1959, following the first year of the CCP’s Great Leap Forward campaign.[12] Many peasants soon began to regard the party-state as an alien, extractive and oppressive force, and to act individually or collectively against it by hiding grain from state collectors, stealing from collective fields, looting granaries, going to cities to demand food,[13] and in some cases taking up arms and engaging in local “power seizures.”[14]

The post-Leap retreat to more conservative agrarian policies (partial decollectivization, restoration of markets) mitigated peasant unrest, but the damage was done. Henceforth it would be more difficult to mobilize peasants for mass campaigns or even everyday work. The inefficiency that Dengists[15] and liberals alike attribute to the nature of collective production in general actually stemmed, in this case, from peasants’ resistance to state extraction and what they interpreted as alien, often irrational attempts to control the production process. In the 1970s (following more moderate recollectivization in the mid-1960s), many peasants again pushed for partial decollectivization, and others welcomed the Dengist state’s forced decollectivization in the early 1980s—less because of peasants’ inherent individualism or “petty bourgeois mentality,” and more because they wanted less extraction and more control over production.[16]

 

Resistance to Price Fluctuations during the Period of Transition (mid-1980s to early 1990s)

The early 1980s was a golden age for most Chinese peasants, comparable to the 1950s in optimism and surpassing it in terms of livelihood. Several decades of peace and gradual improvement of food intake combined with post-1968 improvements in rural health care managed to double life expectancy between 1949 and 1980. Meanwhile, two decades of collective projects to improve rural infrastructure (bringing new land under cultivation, expanding irrigation systems, building roads, etc.) and state modernization of agriculture (mechanization, production of agrochemicals and high-yield varieties of seed and livestock) finally came to fruition in the late 1970s.[17] This was coupled with the first significant state increase in prices for agricultural products, supplemented by subsidies for peasant entrepreneurs who reorganized their household farms and privatized collective equipment to specialize in certain commodities, leading to the most rapid increase in agricultural productivity and income that China had seen since the Ming Dynasty—especially for those able to benefit from the entrepreneurial subsidies available from 1978 to 1984.

By the mid-1980s, however, a combination of new factors caused these increases in productivity and income to decline. The increase attributable to modernization on tiny plots of land soon reached its limits. The state then decreased its subsidies and price controls for agriculture as part of its general strategy of marketization, and in order to balance the budget and lower the price of food for urbanites. These changes spelled disaster for peasants who specialized in certain cash crops when prices fell below the cost of production, leading to the first significant round of peasant unrest in China since the Great Leap Famine,[18] beginning in the late 1980s.

There is little data available on this sequence of struggles due to media censorship and the preference of researchers to focus on either decollectivization or anti-corruption struggles, but it is memorialized in Mo Yan’s novel The Garlic Ballads.[19] Based on news reports and interviews, the novel recounts a 1987 uprising against the falling price of garlic and the government’s refusal to buy the surplus, after local officials had encouraged peasants to specialize in garlic and then pocketed the state subsidies, alongside fees they had charged for farming a cash crop instead of grain. If this case is any indication, the marketization of agriculture at this time was already intertwined with local state corruption, which became the focus of peasant resistance in the 1990s.

 

Resistance to Local State Expropriation in the 1990s and early 2000s

It was during this period that many young peasants began migrating to coastal cities for temporary jobs, incentivized by expropriation in the countryside and increasing employment opportunities in the Special Economic Zones, both occurring just as returns from modernized small-plot agriculture had reached their limits. The struggles of peasants thus bifurcated into the rural struggles dealt with here, and the struggles of ruralites as proletarians, including conflicts in the wage relation and riots against social exclusion discussed in “No Way Forward, No Way Back” (also in this issue).

Despite frequent news reporting and a sizable academic literature, the only attempt at a comprehensive history of rural struggles in China since the 1980s is a pair of articles by Kathy Le Mons Walker published in the late 2000s.[20] The following sections center on summarizing information from those articles, supplementing it with other sources and engaging critically with Walker’s analysis.

Among the many targets of peasant resistance from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, most could be characterized as direct expropriation. These included:

the issuing of IOUs in lieu of payment of cash for crops by local officials, who used the funds for speculative real estate and business deals[…]; cadre diversion of state-allocated inputs for agriculture; the pocketing of TVE [“collective” township and village enterprise] profits by local and mid-level cadres; the imposition by local cadres of a host of ‘illegal’ or ‘unaccounted for’ fines, fees, and taxes to pay for ‘development’ projects and/or for personal use; the forcible confiscation of the land, belongings, and food of peasants who could not or would not pay the extra taxes and fees; the expropriation of arable land without adequate compensation (for highways, real estate development, and personal use, or to attract industrial investors through the creation of ‘development zones’); the issuing of inferior and fake chemical fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, and other supplies by corrupt cadres; and finally the pollution of local water supplies by development projects, which has not only angered peasants but affected agricultural production as well.

This expropriation was not mere “corruption,” as both the Chinese state and liberal critics usually describe it.[21] In some cases it resembles proto-capitalist “primitive accumulation” in Marx’s classical sense, because it played a key role in the transition to capitalism.[22] In others, especially more recently, such expropriation might be better understood as specifically capitalist “accumulation by dispossession” in David Harvey’s sense—Walker’s preferred category of analysis.[23] It transferred products of peasant labor into capitalist enterprises and the infrastructure necessary for its operation. It also took the form of capitalist rents, as opposed to the tributary and socialist rents in rural China prior to marketization. Investment in this period often took the form of “collectively-owned” TVEs, but many of these functioned as profit-oriented joint-stock enterprises, while others were eventually appropriated by their managers or cheaply purchased by capitalists. During China’s reintegration into the world market in the 1990s, these privatized TVEs became the initial vehicle through which Chinese and transnational capital exploited local and migrant peasant-workers—the vehicle of their expropriation often becoming the source of their exploitation."

[msyoungsjourneyinindigneoused]

References

Impact Story Channel. (2018). Bartering: Past or Future?. YouTube. https://youtu.be/lxVVIWO0bTY?feature=shared 

Impact Story Channel. (2018). Different approaches to wellbeing: Buen Vivir in Colombia. YouTube. https://youtu.be/lxVVIWO0bTY?feature=shared 

Impact Story Channel. (2018). Land ownership and cooperativism, a different strategy for indigenous empowerment. YouTube. https://youtu.be/lxVVIWO0bTY?feature=shared 

Morales, A., & Calvo, S. (2022). Indigenous worldviews and inclusive education: insights into participatory video and the practice of Buen Vivir of the Misak community. International Journal of Inclusive Education, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2022.2127499

[fadingsunsjvj]

Why Worker Cooperatives in the Tech Sector? | Platform Cooperativism Consortium

[aboutmondragon]

With 84 cooperatives in the industrial, financial, retail, and educational sectors, the group earned €11 billion in revenue last year with more than 70,500 workers.

«Mondragon as the new City-State» @ The Elyssian

[fabioperes]

O novo Lethal Company! #game #lançamento #susto A Landfall publishing lançou dia 1 de abril um jogo com uma temática incrível para jogar com os amigos. #terror #alanzoka ... via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZnhR-Ufk50

[expfcultragreen]

How to startrek

Phase 1 eliminate resource scarcity (close supply chain leakage eg uncharitable waste. Diminish supply chain fragility eg localize, economize ie vertical farming, terrestrial aquaculture)

Phase 2 socialize all goods and services (impossible to argue against it after phase 1 is entirely done)

Phase 3 international space exploration cooperativism

Phase 4 global unity

[tomatobhutan]

Ok. I can't do this anymore. I've reached a point where there's not much purpose in making political statements beyond demonstrating that I believe in something. I cannot teach people anything that hasn't already been said regarding the realm of society and politics. I'm so done with it. I'll try my best to help platform important perspectives and voices but I no longer have the urge to start discussions. My political affiliations don't really extend beyond "cooperativism, no gods no leaders, don't be an asshole, and don't assault or kill anybody."

I've made a new blog focused solely on my art. I'll be reblogging the art from this blog with that one and uploading everything I've been working on since taking a break from Tumblr and trying out other platforms.

Follow me at @androgynouswetcat if you'd like.

[felipeandletizia]

Felipe and Letizia retrospective: February 27th

2005: Arrival in Montevideo

2008: Audiences at la Zarzuela

2009: Audiences at la Zarzuela

2010: Attended the act of renewal of the Pledge to the Flag of the 44th Promotion of the General Military Academy on its 25th anniversary

2012: Inauguration of the Mobile World Congress 2012, “Mobile World Congress 2012”, and presentation of the Barcelona Mobile World Capital Foundation

2013: Audiences at la Zarzuela

2015: Visited “Tecnidex, Fruit Protection” company on its 35th anniversary; Received the High Distinction of the Generalitat Valenciana and of the Great Cross of the Order of Jaume I The Conqueror & Attended the closing of the 7th Congress of Agri-food Cooperativism

2017: Inaugurated “GSMA Mobile World Congress 2017” in Barcelona & Visited the new Cuatrecasas headquarters in Barcelona (1, 2)

2018: Audiences at la Zarzuela

2019: Official welcome to the President and First Lady of Peru, Martin Alberto Vizcarra and Maribel Díaz Cabello (1, 2, 3); Meeting with the President of Peru, Martin Alberto Vizcarra at la Zarzuela; Lunch& Gala dinner offered to the President and First Lady of Peru, Martin Alberto Vizcarra and Maribel Díaz Cabello. (1, 2, 3).

2020: Received Rodrigo Maia, President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, at la Zarzuela & Opening of ARCO 2020 (Contemporary Art Fair) at Ifema in Madrid

2022: Official dinner for the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona

2023: Opening of “MWC Barcelona 2023” in Barcelona

F&L Through the Years: 1140/??

[finanzaemotiva]

#ULTIMORA

L'Unione europea rimuove Bahamas, Belize, Seychelles e Isole Turks e Caicos dalla "black list" delle giurisdizioni non cooperative a fini fiscali. I restanti 12 "paradisi fiscali" per Bruxelles sono: Samoa americane, Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda, Figi, Guam, Palau, Panama, Russia, Samoa, Trinidad e Tobago, Isole Vergini americane, Vanuatu

🗞️ @ultimora24