Jim Hlavac
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Human beings are necessarily cooperative creatures, it in
inherent in the way we are physically in the world. We can not
escape cooperation. Even the most primitive peoples in the mists of
the past had to cooperate. We are not the only cooperative species.
There are many others. But we are the only ones who think about it.
Given this innate propensity to cooperate in a group it can be said
that any cooperative effort by individuals for any peaceful purpose is
good and necessary as those people see fit to conceive and organize
their lives. The only requirement is that the cooperation being of
free will and voluntary.
There can be no cooperation at the point of a gun, that is mere
compliance or acquiescence, it is not cooperation. But any group of
people who join to cooperate to get something done, and pool their
resources and their labor, is perfectly OK.
There is nothing inherently wrong, or impossible, about
cooperative ownership of land, or resources, or businesses or
anything else imaginable. It is merely the combination of human
resources for a purpose that all who join think is good.
Cooperatives are not a better form of organization than, say, a
corporation. Some endeavors lend themselves to cooperative
efforts, such as churches and schools, and some lend themselves to
corporate efforts, like producing oil. But if a cooperative was
formed to drill for oil and they can organize in such a way as to get
the job done profitably there is no anti-capitalism going on, or even
government ownership. It is merely a group of people cooperating on
terms they all agree on.
In some way, a corporation is a cooperative because the people
who join together by buying stock and working for the company are
in fact willingly engaged in cooperative behavior under known rules.
inherent in the way we are physically in the world. We can not
escape cooperation. Even the most primitive peoples in the mists of
the past had to cooperate. We are not the only cooperative species.
There are many others. But we are the only ones who think about it.
Given this innate propensity to cooperate in a group it can be said
that any cooperative effort by individuals for any peaceful purpose is
good and necessary as those people see fit to conceive and organize
their lives. The only requirement is that the cooperation being of
free will and voluntary.
There can be no cooperation at the point of a gun, that is mere
compliance or acquiescence, it is not cooperation. But any group of
people who join to cooperate to get something done, and pool their
resources and their labor, is perfectly OK.
There is nothing inherently wrong, or impossible, about
cooperative ownership of land, or resources, or businesses or
anything else imaginable. It is merely the combination of human
resources for a purpose that all who join think is good.
Cooperatives are not a better form of organization than, say, a
corporation. Some endeavors lend themselves to cooperative
efforts, such as churches and schools, and some lend themselves to
corporate efforts, like producing oil. But if a cooperative was
formed to drill for oil and they can organize in such a way as to get
the job done profitably there is no anti-capitalism going on, or even
government ownership. It is merely a group of people cooperating on
terms they all agree on.
In some way, a corporation is a cooperative because the people
who join together by buying stock and working for the company are
in fact willingly engaged in cooperative behavior under known rules.