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19.2.2005

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http://www.geo.coop/bowmanstone1104.htm

COOPERATIVIZATION AS ALTERNATIVE TO GLOBALIZING CAPITALISM
by
Betsy Bowman & Bob Stone*
Members, GEO Editorial Board

''Can we construct a better world than that of globalizing capitalism? Yes! Through cooperativization. We claim that first-world networks of worker co-ops -- like the one around Mondrag"n, Spain -- if re-oriented so as to solidarize with the alter-globalization movement, could almost fully replace capitalism by a democratic economy. These leading edge worker co-ops would need to restore their deteriorating internal democracy and form a new vanguard with third-world "communities in resistance" and the "social and solidarity economy" in a joint non-violent but liberatory transformation of the global economy.

Since the mid-1970s, both public and social property, especially communal land on which much of humanityÍs rural half depends, has been under attack. But cooperativization -- democratizing production, distribution, and investment -- can stop this, reversing capitalismÍs worst advances. Runaway shops will cease as capital is anchored by workersÍ homes. Exploitation will yield to profit-sharing. Grow-or-die imperatives that threaten global war and environmental ruin will implode as competition is reduced overall. To stay abreast of the greater productivity of co-ops, capitalist firms will be compelled to democratize.''

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