Question

Co-operative socialism

Answer 1

Cooperative Socialism:- I will detain you for a few moments because I am very tired and also because the party to which I belong has at its disposal only two hours, and I would not like to block those of myfriends who desire to develop before you their ideas upon the question in order.What I wish to do, and I believe it is necessary to do it, in order that we may speak with a knowledge of the case, is to examine what co-operation is in itself.Co-operation is simply one of the forms of association, a means of grouping in modern society; it even belongs sometimes to the classof ordinary stock societies, with this only difference that the share offered by the co-operative barely reaches 100 francs, while the shares of capitalist societies go above 500,or even 1,000 francs. And it is because co-operation is nothing but a form of association or grouping that you see it advocated by all social opinions and categories. Co-operation has even been advocated as — what shall I say? — as nascent socialism; co-operators, some of them even workingmen, have set themselves from the start against the class-conscious organization of the proletariat. I recall, when I returned banishment in 1876 — not to go very far in the past — the state of mind of the first Syndicalist Congress in Arras Hall. Thesyndiquésof that time were exclusively co-operators and carried co-operation, which they called the brotherhoodof capital and labor, so far that in their public meetings, when a portion of the proletariat was driven to fight under the form of a strike and they came as far as Paris to ask us for contributions, that is ammunition for our struggling brothers, Chabert, to name only one of them, rose against the collection for the benefit of the striking workingmen of Monceau-lès-Mines, claiming that it would be impossible for our hard-working working class, which since years was treading the road of co-operation to uphold a strike without contradicting itself, even though said strike be born outside itself and forced on its victims by capitalist greediness. reformist theory that regards cooperation as one of the chief means for the peaceful and gradual“transformation” of capitalism into socialism. It arose with the development of the cooperative movement and cooperative theories.
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