Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Bendito Anselmo  and  DELGADO, Nelson Giordano. Solidarity economy: variables and some constitutive supports. Gerais, Rev. Interinst. Psicol. [online]. 2011, vol.4, n.spe, pp.173-185. ISSN 1983-8220.

In the reflections concerning what might be called the "new anti-capitalist scenario", we can find affirmatives in which the solidarity economy practices represent a very important part in the structure of the transition bridge from resistance to the alternative to capitalism, being, therefore, an essential mechanism in the search for alternatives of relationships among the State, the market, and the society. Under this perspective, the solidarity economy may imply new manners or ways of production and distribution. From its essential supports, popular cooperativism might be considered one of the most important. Due to the fact that it is based on a specific theory of production and distribution of goods and services, when exercised in a self-management way, popular cooperativism has as its main characteristic the emancipation in relation to the liberal forms of market. It may rescue, in this sense, several alternative propositions of distribution of power and income, representing the genesis of what might be called solidarity economy.

Keywords : Solidarity Economy; Popular Cooperativism; Class Action; Emancipation.

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