[lbo-talk] Subject: Re: Class nature of the state (Was: Socialist modelling)

[Nicholas Roberts]

the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation has never fired anyone, instead if
cooperative of a member (worker owner) needs to downsize the cooperative
group moves that person within the cooperative group

when we visited Mondragon (the town Arrasate in Basque) half of the 100+
cooperatives where losing money and there was a lot of redistribution and
mutual support within the group

interestingly, Mondragon developed under an anti-Basque Francoist fascoid
regime of Spanish autarky

Mondragon is not some hippy dippy food coop completely isolated from other
businesses, its a worker owned multinational industrial corporation

when we visited they where building a big new research park, they where
doing a nano-technology research venture with non other than Microsoft

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:21 PM, <lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org> wrote:


> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Class nature of the state (Was: Socialist
>        modelling)
>