My last post mentioned the US-based Democracy Collaborative, which advocates an economic program that it is possible to imagine being implemented. I think another route to the more cooperative economy they imagine would involve pushing, by a series of reforms over time, the current corporate system towards a more participatory model. The end would perhaps…
Day: May 12, 2014
A co-operative economy?
The rhetoric of TINA (There Is No Alternative) in the matter of economic organising still permeates British politics. We are offered markets or state control and told that markets are better. We are offered corporations or nationalised industry and told that corporations are better. We are offered private property or state ownership and told that…