Cooperatives and Socialism

1. Introduction
Camila Piñeiro Harnecker

Part I. What is a Cooperative?

2. An Introduction to Cooperatives
Jesús Cruz Reyes, Camila Piñeiro Harnecker

3. Building Alternatives beyond Capital
Julio C. Gambina, Gabriela Roffinelli

Part II. Cooperatives and Socialist Thinkers

4. Cooperativism and Self-Management in Marx, Engels, and Lenin
Humberto Miranda Lorenzo

5. Socialist Cooperativism and Human Emancipation: Lenin’s Legacy
Iñaki Gil Vicente

6. Ché Guevara: Cooperatives and the Political Economy of Socialist Transition
Helen Yaffe

7. Foundations of Self-Managed Socialism: The Contribution of István Mészáros
Henrique T. Novaes

Part III. Cooperatives in Other Countries

8. Mondragón: The Dilemmas of a Mature Cooperativism
Larraitz Altuna Gabilondo, Aitzol Loyola Idiakez, Eneritz Pagalday Tricio

9. Forty Years of Self-Management in Popular Housing in Uruguay: The “FUCVAM Model”
Benjamín Nahoum

10. Solidarity Economy in Brazil: The Relevance of Cooperatives for the Historic Emancipation of Workers
Luiz Inácio Gaiger, Eliene Dos Anjos

11. Worker Self-Management in Argentina: Problems and Potentials of Self-Managed Labor in the Context of the Neoliberal Post-Crisis
Andrés Ruggeri

12. From Cooperatives to Enterprises of Direct Social Property in the Venezuelan Process
Dario Azzellini

Part IV. Cooperatives and Cuba’s Path to Socialism

13. Agricultural Cooperatives in Cuba: 1959–Present
Armando Nova González

14. The UBPC: A Way of Redesigning State Property with Cooperative Management
Emilio Rodríguez Membrado, Alcides López Labrada

15. Notes on the Legal Framework of the Cuban Cooperative Environment
Avelino Fernández Peiso

Avainsanat: Economics, Economic Policy, Industrial Organization, International Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Economic Systems, Development Economics