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Cooperatives as Transitional Economics

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In contemporary discourse, cooperatives are often considered as vehicles for post-capitalist social transformation. However, theorists affiliated with the first, second, and third Internationals groupings of socialist parties suggested that cooperative potential was circumscribed by market coercion, leaving co-ops with limited pedagogical value and subordinating them to political movements. Their experience suggests it is important to avoid conflating cooperatives’ demonstration of post-capitalist labor norms with the strategic problems of creating a post-capitalist society. JEL classification: B14, J54

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  • Greg Sharzer, 2017. "Cooperatives as Transitional Economics," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 49(3), pages 456-476, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:49:y:2017:i:3:p:456-476
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613415627154
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    Keywords

    cooperatives; post-capitalism; socialism; transition;
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    JEL classification:

    • B14 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Socialist; Marxist
    • J54 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Producer Cooperatives; Labor Managed Firms

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