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Subject: Re: [anarchist.academics] sources on cooperatives?
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:34:52 -0200
From: Leandro Monteiro dal Bó <leandro.db at gmail.com>
To: Iain McKay <iain.mckay at yahoo.co.uk>
CC: anarchist.academics <anarchist.academics at lists.mutualaid.org>

Great!
Hello from southern Brazil
Does anybody know some current anarchist work about egalitarian cooperation
on technological service providing?
Here in Florianopolis we are about to create a cooperative starting with
around 10 people, and the intention is to grow.

Besides services, we think about cooperative production also (software,
hardware etc), but that's more expensive, so we're starting providing
technological/communicational services to other productive cooperatives,
workers syndicates and organizations.

The intention, as usual, is to avoid sallary. We do voluntary work within
autonomous collectives connected to Independent Media Center, free radios
and alike, but to work as salaried (or to create a capitalist corporation)
is a contradiction some of us really want to replace by another form of
collective work, so we're studying cooperation, but here in Brazil I don't
know much of anarchists doing this, writing, researching, experimenting etc.

No masters, no slaves!
Cheers,
Leandro


2010/11/23 Iain McKay <iain.mckay at yahoo.co.uk>

> Hello all
>
> In terms of Proudhon, my anthology may be of use:
>
> http://www.property-is-theft.org
>
> The introduction does go into co-operatives (there is a sub-section on it,
> and the appendix on "The Poverty of Philosophy" is also of note), as do
> various texts by Proudhon (starting, significantly, with "What is
> Property?").
> His "Stock Exchange Speculator’s Manual" is of interest, plus " Bank of
> the People" (I should note that there have been a few tweaks so the
> on-line versions are not 100% the same as the book versions).
>
> The book is being laid-out just now and should be available next month.
>
> Also this blog may be of interest:
>
> http://anarchism.pageabode.com/pjproudhon/proudhon-on-socialisation
>
> and these reviews:
>
>
> http://anarchism.pageabode.com/anarcho/review-proudhon-s-general-idea-of-the-revolution
>
>
> http://anarchism.pageabode.com/anarcho/review-proudhon-system-economic-contradictions
>
> http://anarchism.pageabode.com/anarcho/review-proudhon-what-is-property
>
> That is about producer co-operatives, there is also other material on
> credit associations.
>
> An Anarchist FAQ also has sections on co-operatives (in volume 2, due out
> next
> year):
>
> http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/secI3.html
>
> http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/secJ5.html#secj510
> http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/secJ5.html#secj511
> http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/secJ5.html#secj512
>
> I also had an exchange with on this subject of whether we should urge
> people
> to form co-ops now (but, to be honest, the libertarian communist who I was
> discussing with never addressed my arguments at all):
>
> http://anarchism.pageabode.com/anarcho/bailouts-or-co-operatives
>
> http://anarchism.pageabode.com/anarcho/co-operatives-and-conflicts
>
>
> http://anarchism.pageabode.com/anarcho/co-operatives-conflicts-and-revolution
>
> and this may be of use (appeared in Shift magazine):
>
> http://anarchism.pageabode.com/anarcho/mutualism-yes-and-no
>
> There is a host of material on and by co-operatives on-line as well. For
> example:
>
> http://cog.kent.edu/
>
> The works of David Ellerman and David Schweickart would be of use:
>
> http://www.ellerman.org/Davids-Stuff/AboutDavidEllerman.htm
>
> http://www.luc.edu/faculty/dschwei/
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Iain
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Nick Montgomery <montgomerynick at gmail.com>
> *To:* anarchist.academics <anarchist.academics at lists.mutualaid.org>
> *Sent:* Tue, 23 November, 2010 4:06:53
> *Subject:* [anarchist.academics] sources on cooperatives?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently researching coops and looking feverishly for sources written
> from anarchist (or otherwise radical) perspectives.  Most of the stuff I've
> come across is either based in liberal economics, or historical.  I'm most
> interested in the contemporary North American context, especially with folks
> dealing with theoretical/conceptual problems, and/or folks thinking about
> coops beyond their structural characteristics and principles (grappling with
> the contexts of capitalism, race, colonialism, other institutions, urbanism,
> etc).  However, I'm also interested in Proudhonian cooperativism (and maybe
> its legacies?) and other coop-related stuff.  I've found the latest issue of
> 'Affinities' (all about "The New Cooperativism") and this was an oasis in
> the desert of liberal economics and history.  Any other helpful hints would
> be much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
>
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