Linking Opposition & Alternatives

John McNamara responds to responses to his article on why a "cooperative Uber" is a bad idea, and reports on some of the many tech cooperative projects.

The concluding chapter of Solidarity Economy Roads which brings together observations from the previous 10 chapters.

Luis Razeto Migliaro considers the relationship between spirituality and economy.

John McNamara reflects on his 26 years as a worker-owner at Union Cab.

Razeto starts with an analysis of two perennial sources of transformational energy: the “impoverished and untenable” situation of those who are marginalized and subordinate in the existing order, and the profound dissatisfaction of those better situated who nonetheless hope for a better society in which higher values and ideas are made real. Challenging the wide-spread notion of “system change,” the idea that “the existing social order – understood as a “system” – must be replaced by a different one: a new type of society,” Razeto critiques the focus on conquest of power, and the emphasis on politics as the “proper arena for the application of forces tending to the construction of a better society.”