Socialist strategy and a critique of cooperatives w/ Sam Gindin

Sam Gindin shares his critique of cooperatives and his ideas about the broader challenges of building socialism. 

Sam Gindin served as research director of the Canadian region of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and later as chief economist and Assistant to the President of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union. At both unions, he participated in major collective bargaining,  policy development, and strategic discussions on direction of the union.   

He drew on that experience to author "The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union." He co-authored "The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire" and "The Socialist Challenge Today" (with Leo Panitch) and "In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives" (with Greg Albo and Leo Panitch).  His articles for Jacobin mentioned in this episode include:  

Chasing Utopia: Worker ownership and cooperatives will not succeed by competing on capitalism's terms. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/03/workers-control-coops-wright-wolff-alperovitz 

What a Socialist Society Could Actually Look Like
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/socialist-society-future-cooperatives 

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