“In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work out participatory management, we need new ecological strategies developed at the local city, state, regional level.” NeedsStatesAmericaLevelsCitiesDevelopmentManagementStrategyStructureDemocraticWork OutLocalsOwnershipEcologicalCooperatives Author:Gar Alperovitz
“For 40 years, my argument has been that democratizing ownership of wealth has been the key to egalitarian society and the goals of egalitarian society. But you start at the local level, both at the workplace, community and other institutions and you reconstruct the egalitarian democratized structure as well as participatory structure. And as this happens, we learn more how to move toward the vision that is much larger than just the community level.” YearsWellsHas BeensHappensMovingGoalCommunityWealthLevelsVisionKeysArgumentInstitutionsStructureLocalsOwnershipWorkplace Author:Gar Alperovitz
“Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes develop positive participatory schemes, sometimes not. We know from the studies of worker-owned plywood companies in the US, they can tend to develop conservative attitudes, not socialist attitudes. So even though I'm an advocate of further democratization of the workplace, we also need to be building larger structures.” KnowsNeedsSometimesAttitudeCompanyStudyBuildingCircumstancesBehaviorStructureWorkersConservativeCapitalistSchemesSocialistWorkplaceFloatingReplicateDemocratization Author:Gar Alperovitz
“The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.” PeopleTogetherWealthMillionsTakenStructureBottomMedieval Author:Gar Alperovitz
