Re: co-ops

[Jim Devine]

At 01:55 PM 12/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
>if co-ops can successfully give people what they want at a price that
>excludes "surplus value", then why haven't they become a major factor in
>republican-capitalist societies?

there are at least two reasons:

(1) if they grow, they lose most or all of their advantages;

(2) banks won't lend to them, except at higher interest rates.

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine