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
You forgot that worker-owners like surplus value.
As to (1) and (2), I don't see why either should
follow. Coops are not so dangerous that a lender
would forego their business.\
mbs
