> It makes me wonder(i'm korean): how would a Westerner react if they saw me romanticizing the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain? They’d probably find it strange and out of touch with reality.

Quite the opposite - for me, anyway.

FWIW, as a Westerner, I find the Mondragon Corporation to be fascinating and something I've read a lot about because there's no way we've figured out the ideal sort of setup for a business (or government, or any sort of human organization, given appropriate context) in the year 2026.

We have a lot to learn, and while "different" doesn't always mean "better," I strongly believe being exposed to "different" is necessary for us to devise novel approaches to human organization.

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amunozo 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Same thing, being Spanish the Basque Cooperatives movement is fascinating. Do you have any recommended read about it?

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gigatree 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The most recent video I could find about this was from like 7 years ago, very weird

	▲	oceanhaiyang 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe try a book instead of YouTube. Not weird as it probably isn’t something that would get clicks

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lo_zamoyski 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

These arrangements lean into "third way" and distributist economics. You might find John Médaille of interest. He's written some books[0] about the subject, some articles[1], and given a talk at Google[2].

In the US, the American Solidarity Party[3] draws from distributism, for instance.

[0] https://a.co/d/05BxSNZ9

[1] https://distributistreview.com/archive/an-introduction-to-di...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1PtStipIsc

[3] https://www.solidarity-party.org/

	▲	amunozo 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you!

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jagged-chisel 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Let’s not confuse “romanticism” with “intrigue.” Things can be interesting and intriguing without being ideal targets.