Di Logan Marie Glitterbomb. Originale pubblicato il 20 dicembre 2023 con il titolo Funding Worker Cooperatives: A Solution. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Anarchici, socialisti, comunisti, marxisti, anticapitalisti e post-capitalisti hanno sempre portato ad esempio le cooperative di lavoratori come sistema per realizzare la proprietà dei lavoratori e la democrazia sul lavoro all’interno del capitalismo….

Oleh: Logan Marie Glitterbomb, Teks aslinya berjudul “Funding Worker Cooperatives: A Solution”, diterjemahkan oleh Sachadru. Koperasi pekerja telah lama diperjuangkan oleh kaum anarkis, sosialis, komunis, Marxis, anti-kapitalis, dan tipe-tipe pasca-kapitalis sebagai cara untuk mencapai kepemilikan pekerja dan demokrasi di tempat kerja di dalam kapitalisme. Tidak hanya struktur internal pengambilan keputusan demokratis horizontal yang membantu memecahkan…

Worker cooperatives have long been championed by anarchists, socialists, communists, Marxists, anti-capitalists, and post-capitalist types as a means to achieve worker-ownership and workplace democracy within capitalism. Not only does their internal structure of horizontal democratic decision making help to internally solve Hayek’s local knowledge problem, but, according to Democracy At Work, [w]hen workers have a say in…

In my previous article “In Lieu of Free Banking,” I outline the mutualist and individualist anarchist arguments for free and mutual banking, its potential ability to empower labor, and, briefly, some immediate proxies available via credit unions and alternative currencies. But I also point to Laurance Labadie’s assessment of Benjamin Tucker’s (and later his own)…

At Slate, Edward Ongweso Jr. treats the Silicon Valley Bank failure as “emblematic of a startup ecosystem and venture-capital apparatus that are too unstable, too risky, and too unmoored from reality to be left in charge of something as important as the direction of our technological development.” It’s fair to say there’s a considerable gap…

If you haven’t subscribed to Roderick Long’s Agoric Cafe YouTube channel yet, you’re really missing out! On the Agoric Cafe channel, you can find videos and interviews “devoted to philosophy, politics, history, literature, and whatever else [Roderick feels] like sounding off on.” The interview episodes have been interesting and explorative and the most recent two…

First, most producers are employees of firms, not owners. Viewed from the vantage point of classical theory, they have no reason to maximize the profits of firms, except to the extent that they can be controlled by owners. Moreover, profit-making firms, nonprofit organizations, and bureaucratic organizations all have exactly the same problem of inducing their…