The availability of capital for this type of organization, the capital concentration on the opposing side and its market power is what’s holding us back.
Comment on Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires
tomiant@piefed.social 2 days ago
Yeah, this shit. We CAN use capitalism against itself. Why the fuck aren’t we doing more of it? Nothing is stopping us from creating industrial collectives. Crowdsource that shit!
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I’ll be really interesting to see how people try to hide the source of their wealth / power in a world where everything is co’oped.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
If only there were a way to seize the means of production and redistribute the wealth…
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Added a bit on that. 😊
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
This is why this battle has to go on multiple fronts. One is creating coops where and when possible. The other is unionizing existing corpos to gain labour power that can be leveraged to curb the oligarch’s power. The third is fighting at the political level for state funding for coops and labour rights.
I can get down with that
tomiant@piefed.social 2 days ago
Yeah I know. :(
TechnoCat@piefed.social 2 days ago
We need better financial tools to allow employees to take out loans to purchase companies from owners and form worker cooperatives.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Italy does this! They have a strong worker commune culture on the region they make the parmesan cheese at.
fortnitefinn@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Why the fuck aren’t we doing more of it?
Because we’re stupid.
Because we’re stupid.
rimu@piefed.social 2 days ago
In some places it’s fairly common. Check out this network of 257 cooperatives in Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Too few places. There’s a cluster in Italy as well.
boramalper@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Which one(s) are you referring to?
HailSeitan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Maybe some of these ones?