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Bernard E. Harcourt | For Coöperation and the Abolition of Capital: A First Draft
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Abolition 13/13
Introduction: For Coöperation
1 Coöperation Today
1.1 Mutual Insurance | State Farm
1.2 Credit Unions | Crédit Agricole, France
1.3 Producer Coöperatives | Land O’Lakes
1.4 Consumer Coöperatives | R.E.I.
1.5 Worker Coöperatives | Isthmus Engineering
1.6 Retailer or Purchaser Coöperatives | Ace Hardware
1.7 The Resilience of Coöperation
2 Beyond Capitalism and Communism
2.1 The Misleading Label “Capitalism”
2.1.1 The provenance of a misleading term
2.2 The Reality of Tournament Dirigisme
2.2.1 The Airline Bailouts
2.2.2 Hidden Jackpots in the CARES Act
2.3 The Problem with “Communism”
2.4 Getting Beyond the Cold War
3 Reimagining Coöperation
3.1 The Myriad Dimensions of Proprietary Interests
3.2 Allocating the Proprietary Interests
3.3 The Simplicity of Coöperation
3.4 Addressing Global Climate Change
4 Abolishing Capital
4.1 The Corporate Finance of Coöperation
4.1.1 The privately held company
4.1.2 The publicly traded corporation
4.1.3 Coöperative enterprises
4.1.4 All the Difference
4.1.5 Redesigning the corporate landscape for coöperation
4.2 Fending Off the Skeptics
4.2.1 The Higher Return on Capital
4.2.2 The Response
4.3 Human Greed
5 The Long History of Coöperationism
5.1 Peter Kropotkin’s 1902 book, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
5.2 A Recent Revival of Interest
5.3 Clearing Some Ground | Owen, Fourier, Proudhon
5.4 Reimagining Coöperation
5.4.1 Mutual Aid
5.4.2 The American Coöperative Movement
Conclusion
Postscript: Abolition Democracy 13/13
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Matthew Salganik,
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On Coöperation
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Bernard E. Harcourt, "
On Cooperationism: An End to the Economic Plague
,"
Critical Inquiry
, May 5, 2020.
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