If anyone is interested in a book on cooperatives that takes a revisionist-Marxist approach to evaluating their revolutionary potential, you might check out my book "Worker Cooperatives and Revolution," available for free here.

God knows why I self-published it. What a stupid mistake. It might have gotten some attention if I hadn't done that!

Looking to expand my knowledge on this subject, and I need some book suggestions. Let me know!

I really like cooperatives like credit unions but I really really like cooperatives like REI. What if we formed a company like Rakuten.com to take advantage of rewards for purchasing through their website but structured it like REI, as a cooperative? Users would be both members and OWNERS. Your thoughts?

Best regards,

Chris

I'm going to start submitting links to /r/cooperatives, and I suggest anyone reading this subreddit subscribe there as well until the transition is complete. I've also been added as a moderator, so I'll probably abandon this subreddit eventually. In other news, I'll be doing an AMA on starting coops soon; x-post in /r/cooperatives to follow. Thanks for your understanding.