All Things Co-op: The Issue of Inequality
[S06 E09] New
Polls show that most Americans think economic inequality is a problem, but if you listen to right-wing capitalist apologists, you’ll hear that economic inequality is either not that big of a deal, a consequence of economic freedom, and/or...
Read moreAll Things Co-op: Democracy at Work - 10 Year Anniversary Special
[S06 E08] New
In this episode of All Things Co-op, Larry, Cinar, and Kevin celebrate Democracy at Work’s 10 year anniversary by reflecting on their history and involvement with [email protected] The ATC guys discuss the value of [email protected], their own political histories and...
Read moreAll Things Co-op: Federation of Southern Cooperatives with Terence Courtney
[S06 E07] New
In this episode of All Things Co-op, Cinar, Larry, and Kevin talk with Terence Courtney, the Director of Cooperative Development & Strategic Initiatives at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, an organization focused on land retention, cooperative development, and advocacy for small black-owned farms in the Southern...
Read moreAll Things Co-op: Friendships, Relationships, and Intimacy in a Cooperative Society
[S06 E06] New
Does capitalism allow real friendship? How does commodification shape our dating lives? How do people share intimacy in a world in which data is translatable to wealth? These and many more...
Read moreAll Things Co-op: Online Education with John Hayes of MyCoolClass
[S06 E05] New
In this episode of ATC, Cinar, Larry and Kevin talk with John Hayes of MyCoolClass about the rise of educational platforms and online learning. MyCoolClass aims to give power back to the teachers as they navigate the online teaching world and show how cooperative principles...
Read moreAll Things Co-op: Innovation Under Capitalism
[S6 E04] New
In this episode of All Things Co-op, Cinar, Larry, and Kevin talk about the issue of innovation under both capitalism and a possible cooperative economy. The innovation we’ve seen over the last 250 years has been so immense that people often believe if we changed our economic system, we’d lose the drive for innovation. Though the innovation achieved under capitalism has led to...
Read moreAll Things Co-op: Work and Leisure
[S6 E02] New
In this episode of All Things Co-op, Larry, Cinar, and Kevin dive into the issue of leisure as it relates to both our current capitalist system and a future cooperative society. What does leisure look like under capitalism and...
Read moreAll Things Co-op: There Is An Alternative To Capitalism
[S6 E01] New
Welcome to Season 6 of All Things Co-op!
In this first episode of Season 6, Cinar, Larry, and Kevin introduce the theme of Season 6: there is an alternative. Critics on the Left love to talk about what they’re against but rarely offer real alternatives. Playing off the widespread feeling of capitalist realism—that there is no alternative to our current economic order—the ATC guys propose that building a...
Read moreAll Things Co-op: Why The Left Needs to Grow the Cooperative Movement
[S5 E10] New
In this episode of All Things Co-op, Kevin, Cinar, and Larry discuss the urgency of scaling the cooperative movement. Traditional capitalist enterprises leave the majority of workers feeling trapped and exploited. Democratically-run worker co-ops are a functional solution to a system built on...
Read moreAll Things Co-op: Cooperative vs. Capitalist Enterprise
[S5 E09] New
In this episode of All Things Co-op, Kevin recommends a few resources for listeners who are interested in starting and running their own worker co-op. He then takes a step back and contextualizes cooperatives within our current economic system. What does it mean to do startup work in the...
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