By Étienne Balibar “The expropriators are expropriated”: This is one of Marx’s most celebrated sentences, which is to be found towards the end of the chapter on « The Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation », Chapter 32 of section 8… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “The cooperative factories run by workers themselves are, within the old form, the first examples of the emergence of a new form, even though they naturally reproduce in all cases, in their present organization, all the… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In Chapter 13 of Capital, Volume I, Marx sketches a theory of cooperation that resonates well with what I called “coöpower” in my book Cooperation. Marx defines the term “co-operation,” drawing on the work of the… Continue Reading
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