Category Archives: Reflections

Worker co-ops are not the solution, but a vehicle (and a sturdy one at that).

Posted on December 27, 2019 by John McNamara

“We do not aspire to economic development as an end  but as a means.”-– Don José María Arizmendiarietta (029)*
In early December, I attended a workshop in Post Falls, Idaho for Reimagining the Rural West. This initiative of the Western Governors … Continue reading →

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Reflection #541–power of individuals in cooperation

Posted on September 1, 2017 by John McNamara

In returning to this blog, I am also returning to a long-abandoned project. A couple of years ago, I began discussing the inspirational messages from Don José María Arizmendiarrieta, the spiritual founder of Mondragón and, in many ways, the modern … Continue reading →

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Worker Development Brings a Better World

Posted on September 25, 2015 by John McNamara

REFLECTION NO. 276
Work is the attribute that gives a person the highest honor of being a cooperator of God in the transformation and fertilization of nature and in the resulting promotion of human well-being. That people exercise their faculty of … Continue reading →

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We do not live alone, but in co-operation

Posted on September 24, 2015 by John McNamara

REFLECTION NO. 42
There is something in the depths of the human spirit that is firm and eternal. And there is also something that needs to be moving towards a new and superior expansion, in consonance with the interior and social … Continue reading →

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Co-operation Isn’t For Everyone. . . (initially)

Posted on September 22, 2015 by John McNamara

REFLECTION NO. 538
The radicalism of the cooperative proposal, in face of development, appealing to the economic, personal, communal and integral concourse of its believers, faces the alternative of success or complete failure. Cooperativism requires people with a strong spirit, or … Continue reading →

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Pope Francis and Co-operatives

Posted on September 21, 2015 by John McNamara

Tomorrow, Pope Francis arrives for his first visit to the United States. This pope, hailing from Argentina, brings with him a message for all of us in terms of building our economies–the quest for wealth needs to be more than … Continue reading →

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