We started off with 100 friends to make a dual Consumer and work Coop, without bosses or private profits. When the big 15M social revolution took off we were flooded with young people and dozens of new projects.
by Gka/Jordi/ TheFree at Revolucion Integral Catalana on 1st October 2024 from thefreeonline –https://wp.me/pIJl9-EaE (on T’gram t.me/thefreeonline )
This text briefly and partially covers the Integral Coop’s (CIC) journey from 2010 to 2017, until it was effectively dissolved, although not officially, as it still operates today in a an ad hoc manner.
The CIC was formed in Barcelona in the period immediately after the outbreak of the 2008 crisis, based on the postulates of alter-economy, self-management and degrowth (it emerged in 2010 as a result of the march for degrowth) and it gradually adopted a line of discourse in favour of ecology, disobedience and against state power and the banking cartel, subsequently adopting the call for integral revolution (2014).
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Along its path, it produced a great confluence of ideologically disparate people; libertarians, anarchists, communists, trade unionists, new age and therapeutics, neo-rurals, independentists, etc. although the ideological label always remained in the background, with the principles that were discussed and established for this purpose taking centre stage.
Postmodern ideologies and traditional “isms” in the militant sphere did not have a significant presence in the public and operational sphere, except for some specific debates that were organised, for example, in relation to the independence of Catalonia, from the perspective of independence without a State.
However, the incompatibility of some visions and lifestyles, not explicitly addressed from the beginning through some kind of admission filter, was one of the triggers of the subsequent tensions and further disintegration.
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