An Abundance of Values Mired in Corporatization; A Look at the Living Wage Plan
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Michael Bakunin, the 19th century anarchist, identified what he called cooperation—associations for consumption, credit, and production—as distinguished by two opposing currents—one bourgeois and the other socialist.[1] He defines bourgeois cooperation as, “the … practice of exploiting labor through capital.†Of socialist cooperation, he writes, “…we know that [cooperation] will prosper, developing itself fully and freely, embracing all human industry, only when it is based on equality, when all capital and every instrument of labor, including the soil, belong to the people by right of collective property.†It's a centuries-old battle: collectivize or privatize. When one considers how Abundance “Cooperative†Market is operated, Bakunin's words seem apropos. Read the full article by clicking this link.
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