Open co-ops

Michael Bauwens, founder of the P2P Network and an activist and thinker on the digital commons has developed the concept of ‘open co-ops’ to refer to a new kind of co-operative which operates in a non-capitalist way. It’s an excellent concept and one that needs to be taken up and developed and implemented by the […]

Cooperation and peasants

Interesting to see the significant role that cooperation and collective management have played in the livelihood of peasants through history – probably the livelihood for the majority of people in the world for the last eight centuries. “By and large the characteristic of traditional peasants is a much higher degree of formal and informal (mostly […]