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Organic Planet @organic.planet.worker.coop #organic #workercooperative #workercoop #workercoops #organicplanet (at Organic Planet Worker Co-Op)

"In his well-informed and readable article, Carl Rowlands points to some of the major challenges facing the consumer co-operative movement in the UK. He accurately diagnoses some of its ills, including the lack of real member power and the ossified hierarchy in the movement’s biggest player, The Co-operative Group. Carl sets out to argue that Beatrice Webb’s vision of a powerful co-operative federation that would challenge capitalism was doomed to failure from the start, because of inherent contradictions in the co-operative model. Unfortunately, he repeats the mistakes that Webb made—mistakes that still have consequences today...."