Confronting the “System Problem” Cooperatively

By Len Krimerman, Grassroots Economic Organizing

Let me offer three concrete, somewhat controversial and possibly enlightening cases of “planning” for consideration as models, and then ask whether they are, or could be, acceptable as “participatory” and/or as “centered within the co-op movement”.

Mondragón and the System Problem

By Thomas M. Hanna, Gar Alperovitz, Grassroots Economic Organizing

As America moves more deeply into its growing systemic crisis, it is becoming increasingly important for activists and theorists to distinguish clearly between important projects and "institutional elements," on the one hand, and systemic change and systemic design, on the other.