Book Reviews
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Cooperatives and Community Work Are Part of American DNA
There is so much in US history that has been hidden or mythologized that ignorance is more common than knowledge even among the best informed. That is how we felt when we read For All the People and then interviewed the author, John Curl, on Clearing the FOG radio. Curl's area of expertise is very important for those of us seeking transformational change to a new, more equitable...
Power from the People
Power from the People by Greg Pahl is yet another release in the “Communitiy Reslience Guide” series. The book focuses on tangible information, which can guide communities, regions, and individuals into a stable future. Pahl first focuses on the myriad problems that we face today. With rising energy costs come increased food costs, increased cost of living, and the...
For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communa
Curl’s history of cooperative and communal movements in America is set against the backdrop of one overpowering trend: the transition from an almost completely self-employed work force at the time of Independence, to a present-day labor market in which self-employed workers are almost as much of an anomaly as free blacks ca. 1850. Two hundred years ago, wage labor was viewed as a form...
For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communa
Though his hair has turned white, John Curl's passion burns undiminished by the passage of nearly seven decades. "We can't create a utopia," he says. "But we can restructure the world so that competition and repression aren't the bases on which we build our society." While he's well-known as a master woodworker, Curl's also a wordsmith, and in his latest book, For All the People, he...
Workers' Councils
The ghost of communism has been haunting philosophical thought since its origins. From Plato's caste of guardians who owned all property in common in the Republic to the regulative ideal of Kantian morality (treating others as ends in themselves, which Marx rightly saw is incompatible with wage labor) by way of the Lockean state of nature - which prescribes an originally collective ownership...
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