My region is home to the world’s largest worker cooperative, Mondragon Corporation. Do you think worker cooperatives are useful to us? Why aren’t they more widespread? Could their growth be facilitated by new technologies like the Internet or Blockchain?
I was thinking about using cooperatives as an attack mechanism that would materially help the revolution, rather than a way to improve working conditions. The idea is that such a cooperative could be based on volunteer or hybrid work, accumulate capital and develop supply chains very fast, sell at extremely low prices and use decentralization and various economic incentivization schemes to resist threats from the economy and outcompete capitalist firms.
During the revolution, the cooperative (which would be controlled by socialists) would provide material aid, disrupt key supply chains that it should have already taken over, etc. After the revolution, the cooperative would become a state-controlled company, minimizing the time to transition and thus reducing the associated risk.
I’d really like to research how viable this strategy could be, maybe some of you could give me some insight :)