[sam_lowry_]

Well, that's the idea of Lenin.

[C1sc0cat]

Rochdale Pioneers Actually :-)

Yes I do know there where precursors to worker coops in Italy prior to that.

[_Codemonkeyism]

I've followed the up and downs of Mondragon for the last decades. Raiffeisen is known in Germany.

[C1sc0cat]

Mondragon has a bit of a rep amongst other coops

[fmajid]

Could you elaborate?

[C1sc0cat]

Have taken over other coops and made some members redundant - this is from when I worked in coop in the early 2000's

[_Codemonkeyism]

They also have the problem of rising non-coop employees I think.