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  • All Things Co-op: Lessons from Venezuela's Social Economy

    All Things Co-op: Lessons from Venezuela’s Social Economy

    Originally published: Democracy at Work on January 4, 2022 (more by Democracy at Work)  | (Posted Jan 18, 2022)

    They speak about the creation of the social economy, the experience of Chavismo in Venezuela, and the differing goals of some cooperatives and traditional trade unions. Lebowitz highlights the importance of self-actualization through protagonism and how the most successful of these models focused on solidarity over self-interest.

  • Anti-Capitalist Chronicles- Accumulation by Dispossession

    Anti-capitalist chronicles: Accumulation by Dispossession

    Originally published: Democracy at Work on May 23, 2019 (more by Democracy at Work)  |

    Large capital takes over smaller capital and in the end you get a quasi monopolistic situation of the large capitalist dominating all else.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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