Cooperatives and Socialism: A View from Cuba

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
An Introduction to Cooperatives....Pages 25-45
Building Alternatives beyond Capital....Pages 46-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Cooperativism and Self-Management in Marx, Engels, and Lenin....Pages 63-89
Socialist Cooperativism and Human Emancipation: Lenin’s Legacy....Pages 90-114
Ché Guevara: Cooperatives and the Political Economy of Socialist Transition....Pages 115-142
Foundations of Self-Managed Socialism: The Contribution of István Mészáros....Pages 143-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Mondragón: The Dilemmas of a Mature Cooperativism....Pages 167-188
Forty Years of Self-Management in Popular Housing in Uruguay: The “FUCVAM Model”....Pages 190-211
Solidarity Economy in Brazil: The Relevance of Cooperatives for the Historic Emancipation of Workers....Pages 212-234
Worker Self-Management in Argentina: Problems and Potentials of Self-Managed Labor in the Context of the Neoliberal Post-Crisis....Pages 235-258
From Cooperatives to Enterprises of Direct Social Property in the Venezuelan Process....Pages 259-275
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Agricultural Cooperatives in Cuba: 1959–Present....Pages 279-291
The UBPC: A Way of Redesigning State Property with Cooperative Management....Pages 292-316
Notes on the Legal Framework of the Cuban Cooperative Environment....Pages 317-343
Back Matter....Pages 345-351