Worker Cooperative - Political Philosophy of Workers' Cooperatives

Political Philosophy of Workers' Cooperatives

The advocacy of workplace democracy, especially with the fullest expression of worker self-management, such as within workers' cooperatives, is rooted within several intellectual or political traditions:

• The alleviation of alienation in the workplace, especially in regard to Marxist thought
• The encouragement of Participatory or direct democracy
• Radical but popular-democratic strategies for the overthrow of capitalism, for example, several strains of anarchist thought.
• Autonomy and self-control, especially within anarchist thought.
• Cooperating with other Worker Cooperatives

Workers' cooperatives are also central to ideas of Autonomism, Distributism, Mutualism, Syndicalism, Participatory economics, Guild socialism, Libertarian socialism as well as others.