ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Mondragon, an important model of a better world different than either social democracy or indigenous socialism. It could become quite an inspiration for change in the United States itself. Over the last 65 years, it has created over 250 highly productive worker co-ops, all linked together with each other and with their communities, as well as a larger co-op and labor movement. And the Mondragon group is beginning now to join up with larger labor and social movements. And the uniqueness of the capital-labor relation in the Mondragon co-ops is actually subversive of core capitalist ideas about property and ownership-and could create revolutionary ways of thinking about capitalism itself. It is extremely rare for any of the approximately 275 Mondragon co-ops to lay off workers. Mondragon has scaled the co-op idea up and shown it may be able to provide a basis for running an entire economy differently.
