Tag: Workers Cooperatives and Revolution

NOVANEWS An Interview with Dr. Chris Wright By Chris Wright and Mohsen Abdelmoumen Global Research Mohsen Abdelmoumen: You wrote “Worker Cooperatives and Revolution” where you talk about workers’ cooperatives. In this fascinating book, we note your optimism about the coming of a new era where the human is at the center. You give the example of the cooperative New Era Windows, in Chicago. In your opinion, are we in a new era where the union of workers in the form of a cooperative will shape the future of the world? Dr. Chris Wright: I think I may have been a little too optimistic in that book about the potential of worker cooperatives. On the one hand, Marx was right that cooperatives “represent within the old form the first sprouts of the new.” They’re microcosmic socialism, si...