Some time ago I shared an
excellent couple of diagrams about the ills of our present socio-economic
system and how
it might be changed.
I
had some issues with aspects of the presentation and have just come across this diagram which, for me, offers a clearer
outline of the features of a better system – one called a
“solidarity economy”
The
author has a short paper which superbly situates the concept in the wider
context of an
emerging global movement of the past two decades in which even yours truly
became involved as far back as 1978 - when I launched a community-based project
designed to help the long-term unemployed access jobs which would contribute
missing local services in poor areas.
Within
a decade, it had become a well-resourced Community Business in the West of
Scotland – part of a wider social enterprise effort within Scotland and Europe
which continues to this day.
My
effort at making sense of this concept can be seen at p 124 of In
Transit – some notes on Good Governance (1999). Interesting to compare it
with the amazing richness of the diagram which adorns this post!
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