Category Archives: Reflections
How Do We Change the Police?
The rate at which black Americans are killed by police is more than twice as high as the rate for white Americans. This is a non-comprehensive list of deaths at the hands of police in the U.S. since Eric Garner’s … Continue reading
Posted in American Dream, Conversion, Human Relations, Management, Pensimientos, Reflections
Tagged black lives matter, city management, george floyd, police, sociocracy, solidarity
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Worker co-ops are not the solution, but a vehicle (and a sturdy one at that).
“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
Posted in 2040, Pensimientos, Reflections
Tagged Cooperatives, development, mutual self-help, rural development
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Reflection #541–power of individuals in cooperation
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
Posted in Movement, Pensimientos, Reflections
Tagged arizmendiarrieta, Human Nature, humanity, individuality, snowflake
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Worker Development Brings a Better World
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
Posted in Human Relations, Pensimientos, Reflections, Society
Tagged Cooperatives, pope francis, principles, solidarity
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We do not live alone, but in co-operation
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
Posted in Human Relations, Pensimientos, Reflections, Society
Tagged christianity, Distributism, pope francis, social responsibiity
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Co-operation Isn’t For Everyone. . . (initially)
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
Posted in Human Relations, Movement, Pensimientos, Reflections
Tagged cuba, Ownership, pope francis, radcialism, reflections, self-responsibility, values
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Pope Francis and Co-operatives
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
Posted in Education, Human Relations, Reflections
Tagged Arizmenidiaretta, christianity, Cooperatives, Human Nature, pope francis
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