Cooperatives as Transitional Economics

Greg Sharzer

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2017, vol. 49, issue 3, 456-476

Abstract: In contemporary discourse, cooperatives are often considered as vehicles for post-capitalist social transformation. However, theorists affiliated with the first, second, and third Internationals groupings of socialist parties suggested that cooperative potential was circumscribed by market coercion, leaving co-ops with limited pedagogical value and subordinating them to political movements. Their experience suggests it is important to avoid conflating cooperatives’ demonstration of post-capitalist labor norms with the strategic problems of creating a post-capitalist society. JEL classification: B14, J54

Keywords: cooperatives; post-capitalism; socialism; transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613415627154

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