À paraître
How do we think beyond property, particularly in collective terms?
Based on a study of the cooperative movement, the various approaches to collective property in the 19th century, Soviet nationalisation, the Spanish social revolution in 1936 and the Yugoslavian communists’ self-management system, this ambitious essay concentrates on social innovations which will speed up the disappearance of productive property, for example, to the advantage of commons which are connected to each other.
Benoît Borrits is an activist researcher who heads the Autogestion association (www.autogestion.asso.fr). He is the author of Coopératives contre capitalisme (Cooperatives against capitalism), (Syllepse, 2015), and Travailler autrement: les coopératives (a different way of working: cooperatives) (Éditions du Détour, 2017). This book continues his reflection on the limits of cooperatives inherent in the idea of property by extending it to every form of collective property and social appropriation.