Communism From Below: Poor People Organize Cooperatives in Latin America
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Capitalist News Interpreted /
02 Nov 2016
What is wonderful to realize is that whether the government claims to be socialist or capitalist, worker cooperatives spring up independently. Here is a case of a dairy cooperative in Ecuador and a weaving coop in Chiapas, Mexico organized by poor people. This challenges the stereotype that only the middle classes are interested in coops.
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Barbara
Barbara MacLean has worked as an academic and career counselor at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), Merritt and West Valley Colleges and as a career counselor and manager of the Oakland One Stop Career Center, a public career and jobs center in partnership with EDD. She is a co-founder and editor of Planning Beyond Capitalism.