[news] Free Market Economics = Cooperatives

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Found this interesting article at GNN on the nature of the Free Market, one that exists without capitalism. Of course in order to have a free market it has to be cooperative. Something my pals in the Mutualist movement have been at pains to point out.

Frances Moore Lappe finds a cooperative approach to living that actually enhances human dignity

"A market economy and capitalism are synonymous—- or at least joined at the hip. That’s what most Americans grow up assuming. But it is not necessarily so. Capitalism—control by those supplying the capital in order to return wealth to shareholders—is only one way to drive a market.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7991