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“We've been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ownership of banks - there's a whole series of these that attempt to fill the small-scale infrastructure that can build up to a larger theoretical vision.”

Quote by Gar Alperovitz

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Gar Alperovitz
Gar Alperovitz

Gar Alperovitz is an American historian, political scientist, and professor, born on May 5, 1936. He is known for his extensive research and contributions to the fields of American history, political theory, and the socialist movement. more

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“There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things you can't do in every square, that you can do in some of them, building a mosaic of these kinds of practices. There are about 400 cable television networks, for example, that are publicly owned. That's a big fight for big private companies. In some areas, this is a political struggle, in some it's conventional common sense.”