Only associated work can provide the appropriate framework for collective production. Only the organized community can generate a new way of living.

13/8/2024 | #8 | Contemporary Cooperativism What is «radical cooperativism»? What does the debate in the US bring to table and to the future of cooperatives?

Radical Cooperativism

What is «radical cooperativism»? What does the debate in the US bring to table and to the future of cooperatives?

11/8/2024 | #7 | Contemporary Cooperativism If you type «work community» in the Google search bar, the first results that pop up after you press enter would likely be

Work community and communitarian work

If you type «work community» in the Google search bar, the first results that pop up after you press enter would likely be "click bait" on something mistakenly referred to as «communitarian work». The articles talk about professional «social work», NGO volunteering or punitive community service, but never about what a «work community» is nor what real «communitarian work» entails, an institution as universal and ancient as the commons.

10/08/2024 | #6 | Narratives Thirty-six years ago, Bruce Sterling's «Islands in the Net» expressed for the first time the dream of a transnational cooperativism capable of offering its members an alternative that would simultaneously address the erosion of social cohesion that was then emerging under Reagan and Thatcher and the fracture, growing steadily since the post-war period, between the general conditions of life and access to resources and knowledge in the most capitalized countries and the rest of the world.

Bruce Sterling and the dream of transnational cooperativism

Thirty-six years ago, Bruce Sterling's «Islands in the Net» expressed for the first time the dream of a transnational cooperativism capable of offering its members an alternative that would simultaneously address the erosion of social cohesion that was then emerging under Reagan and Thatcher and the fracture, growing steadily since the post-war period, between the general conditions of life and access to resources and knowledge in the most capitalized countries and the rest of the world.

5/8/2024 | #5 | Zeitgeist What demoscopic studies reveal about the current level of social awareness, the rise of authoritarian leaderships and how we can work to bring about real change.

How to overcome social passivity and the rise of authoritarian messiahs

What demoscopic studies reveal about the current level of social awareness, the rise of authoritarian leaderships and how we can work to bring about real change.

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