Let's Co-opefy The Economy, Decenter The Corporatocracy

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[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The problem with going down a far left rabbit hole like this is the purity spiral. First coops. Then these coops aren't pure enough, we need more extreme ones. Eventually everyone gets called racist and the movement collapses because of the intense anger felt by some of the members.

[–]EddieC[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It is fine if co-ops fail. New, better ones can be built from failed experiences.
It is entirely up to the people who are interested to discuss, negotiate & decide amongst themselves how they want their coops to be.
Co-ops can be big or they can be small. There can be many co-ops in any one locale, not just one.
Let the people (ie the market) decide whichever they support.
The objectives are to enable us:
(1) To Organize ourselves into something bigger
(2) To Decenter The Corporatocracy
(3) To Make the shift away from Corporations

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah but it won't matter. It'll fall into a purity spiral just like I said. Leftists who favor coops are angry, angry, angry and trying to placate them never works.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Leftists who favor coops are angry, angry, angry and trying to placate them never works.

Key-word: leftists.