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Ready for Cooperativism?
Wed, 05/28/2008 - 09:45 — Andy MunzerMost of the participants and readers of LDSCooperative, I’m guessing, are not currently living in cooperatives or dominantly socialist states. Personally, I live in the United Kingdom, a nation that is perhaps one of the closest to America in capitalist culture, despite powerful socialist innovations, such as the National Health Service. We’re used to capitalism – it’s what we’ve grown up with. It’s what we know. If your story is anything like mine, you’ve come across socialist principles through conversations with friends, or in your studies. It instantly makes sense to you. You think: ‘that’s what I believe!’ You wonder: ‘Why aren’t we living this way?’
Recent blog posts
- Please Pray for the People of Gaza and for Peace in the Middle East.
- John Dehlin's First Vegetable Patch.
- Mass Media Deception: Genocide and War Crimes by the Georgians Against the South Ossetians
- Ralph Nader and Cooperative Values
- Stephen's First Vegetables from his Garden.
- Message of Hope in a Mad World- Bryan Peterson
- Differences Between Cooperatives and Corporations
- Daring to Take Jesus at His Word- Guest Post from Doc
- Brian Haw at the London Anti-Bush Rallies Teaching Christianity and Peace (15/06/08)
- My Recent Microfinance Loan to Wellington in Peru
"I say that they who are opposed to cooperation are opposed to heaven, to their own welfare, to the welfare of their neighbors, to truth and to everything that is good."
-Brigham Young
"To build cooperativism is not to do the opposite of capitalism as if this system did not have any useful features... Cooperativism must surpass it, and for this purpose must assimilate its methods and dynamism."
- José María Arizmendiarrieta
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