LDS Cooperative "one heart and one mind...with no poor among us"

On the topic of cooperativism, one film that I always recommend to people is “The Take.” Produced and written by extraordinary author Naomi Klein, it is a visual response to the pro-corporate globalization gurus that have criticized “anti-globalization” activists for their lack of alternatives to the current system.

In the late 1800’s, the Mormon pioneers, exiled to the Utah territory, implemented one of the largest experiments in cooperative living that the United States has ever known. They wanted to create a society with no rich and no poor. This society would be built among other things on the principle of cooperativism. Cooperation is the simple notion that when people work together as opposed to competing with one another we can achieve our economic and political goals without backbreaking work or the stratification of society that the capitalist system requires.