By Bernard E. Harcourt For a period in 1973-74, the worker occupation and autogestion of the Lip watch and clock factory in Besançon, France, became the most promising and exciting revolutionary experiment in post-capitalist industrial organization in France and abroad.… Continue Reading
By Antonio Pele Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world and the biggest country in Latin America. It is also one of the world’s most unequal countries regarding income distribution. The wealthiest 10% of the population holds 46%… Continue Reading
By Bethania Assy (Puc-Rio) I will briefly highlight two other co(re)existing experiences of cooperation and mutual solidary from subjects of social injustice. The first one concerns vulnerable population from the Favelas of Brazil facing covid-19, which I named an ethics… Continue Reading
By Bethania Assy (Puc-Rio) Author’s note: This is a preliminary draft, please do not quote. It is part of a work-in-progress book written by Rafael Rolo and I with the collaboration of Allan Hillani to be published by Routledge. It… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In this fourth seminar, Coöperism 4/13, we turn to Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement and other political movements in Brazil to explore how cooperation infuses these social movements. Today, Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) may be one… Continue Reading
Antonio Pele is Associate Professor at the Law School of PUC-Rio University. He has been granted with the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2021), one of the most prestigious and generous Fellowships of the European Union. With his research project ‘Making Humans: Human… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Honneth, Axel. “Democratic Citizenship: A political-philosophical account.” Lecture in Mexico City, March 11, 2024. Available here. Honneth, Axel. “‘Labour’: A Brief History of a Modern Concept.” Available here.