[p2p-research] communitiy organizing vs. coops

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Kevin,

do you have some details about Karl Hess,
author of Community Technology.



On 5/24/09, Kevin Carson <free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/21/09, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  Community Organizing and the Solidarity Economy
>
> > By Dan Swinney
> >  SolidarityEconomy.net
>
> > Saul Alinsky, influenced deeply by John L. Lewis of the United
> Mineworkers of America, advanced a vision for low-income communities that
> paralleled the successful organizing strategy of the Congress of Industrial
> Organizations.  This was a strategy premised evidently on the notion that
> the means of production, the creators of wealth in the United States were
> doing a decent job.
>
> > Alinsky didn't focus on the well-being of the means of production but on
> the improvement of the distribution of wealth that the system generated to
> include communities that were systematically excluded or shortchanged
> because they were Black, Latino, or working class.
> >
>
> > At the same time, in the Basque region of northern Spain in the village
> of Mondragon, a priest, Father Jose Maria Arizmendi, took a different tack.
>
> > He assumed in his approach that controlling and developing the means of
> production in light of the values and priorities of the local community
> should be the principal focus of organizing and organizational development.
> rather than just focusing on the broader distribution of wealth.  It was at
> the point of production, where work was done that democracy should be
> extended, and where worker/residents had the greatest leverage and power.
> >
>
> It's possible to fuse the two approaches:  to promote the development
> of community economies and "economic self-rule" while organizing
> against unjust behavior by the large corporations and absentee
> landlords who still have a presence.  A good example is Karl Hess,
> author of Community Technology.
>
> --
> Kevin Carson
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> http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html
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