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Featured Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Feb 10, 2012

Where is Kropotkin When We Really Need Him?

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/where-is-kropotkin-when-we-really-need-him/

On February 8, 1921 twenty thousand people, braving temperatures so low that musical instruments froze, marched in a funeral procession in the town of Dimitrov, a suburb of Moscow. They came to pay their respects to a man, Petr Kropotkin, and his philosophy, anarchism. Some 90 years later few know of Kropotkin. And the word… Continue reading

Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Feb 9, 1999

Populism Circa 1999

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/populism-circa-1999/

Populism Circa 1999 by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance February 9, 1999 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press The election of Jesse Ventura set off a flurry of punditry about the meaning of the word “populist”. Governor Ventura certainly fits to a “v” the first part of Webster’s New World Dictionary’s definition of… Continue reading

Cooperative Commonwealth
Article, Resource filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Jun 1, 1997

A New Cooperative Commonwealth

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This speech by David Morris was originally presented at the National Cooperative Business Association’s Cooperative Development Forum in June 1997 Continue reading

Resource filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Nov 5, 1992

The Mondragon System: Cooperation at Work

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/mondragon-system-cooperation-work/

This 1992 report by David Morris is a review of the Mondragon Cooperative in Spain. The report examines cooperative structure, management, education, finance, and banking.

The Mondragon Cooperative Corporation is a 35 year old experiment in building a comprehensive cooperative society in which labor plays the primary and dominant role. The Cooperative Group has amassed technical, managerial and financial resources comparable to those of a major corporation and used those resources to further social as well as economic goals that emphasize the importance of community and small and medium scale enterprise.

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