Maximalism

The awakening of worker cooperatives in Europe

Publicado el 1 de octubre de 2024Contemporary Cooperativism

Europe is currently experiencing a revival of cooperativism and in particular that of worker cooperativism. Despite the fact that cooperatives are invisibilized through the "Social Economy" discourse, thousands of workers in France, Germany, Italy or Spain, fed up with the precariousness of life and work and the absence of solutions proposed in increasingly divisive and aggressive discourses, are overcoming passivity, confronting atomization, organizing productively, joining their families and communities and collectively taking the future into their own hands.

A brief history of social passivity and some counter-current ideas on how to communicate to confront it

Publicado el 15 de septiembre de 2024Zeitgeist

The growth of social passivity since the late 1980s has been a consequence of the devaluation of work. The first Internet began to reverse passivity, but through social networks it ended up multiplying it until it became the air of the ultra-individualized world we now live in. But what if communicating not mediated by the pillars of passivity were not as difficult as we think?

Cooperatives and the emerging European crisis

Publicado el 10 de septiembre de 2024Contemporary Cooperativism

The possibility of an economic, social and territorial crisis is open throughout Europe during the second half of this decade. A crisis that could exceed in its effects on the well-being and income of families that of 2008. What can we do from cooperatives?

Where is cooperativism heading?

Publicado el 5 de septiembre de 2024Contemporary Cooperativism

A primary evaluation of current trends in cooperativism

Collective Interest Cooperatives and Steward Ownership Models

Publicado el 30 de agosto de 2024Contemporary Cooperativism

The SCICs (Cooperative Societies of Collective Interest) in France, the «Steward Ownership» models in Germany and those based on «Assets in Common» in the USA are the spearhead of a new productive cooperativism in which workers share or cede ownership to other agents.

New cooperativism

Publicado el 27 de agosto de 2024Contemporary Cooperativism

The term «New Cooperativism» has been used in academia since 2010 to define cooperative initiatives that go beyond the hegemonic model of the ICA and which promote new forms of cooperativism based on commons that prefigure «post-capitalist» relationships.

The Fever

Publicado el 20 de agosto de 2024Narratives

«The Fever» is, without a doubt, the best series of 2024 and will probably be remembered as one of the three best series about politics of the last 25 years

Radical Cooperativism

Publicado el 13 de agosto de 2024Contemporary Cooperativism

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