Does Covid 19 Offer a Historic Opportunity for the Transition from a Capitalist Economy to a Solidarity Economy? [] Center for Global Justice

Do not forget: If you want to change something, do not continue doing the same thing and do not use what you want to change to achieve it.
–Albert Einstein

The current pandemic has radically altered many of our ways of working together in our communities, regions, and internationally. It has exposed new levels vulnerability and risk, and added new dimensions to the multiple crises that human civilization already suffers. In these times of unprecedented uncertainty, would it be preposterous to think that there are favorable conditions for major paradigm shift? Actually, many prominent thinkers, in Mexico and across the globe think just that.

According to a new statement issued by GPES — Grupo Promotor de la Economia Social/Solidarity Economy Promotion Group–in Mexico, they believe that it is both feasible and necessary to organize for a new development model–a more humanist, anti-capitalist paradigm based on sustainability and respect for all life, with self-managed cooperatives as important agents of change and alternatives to corporations. The signers of the statement submit that it is a question of multiplying successful cases of rural and urban communities that have already begun the survival struggle to transition from the current ecosocial crises to a solidarity economy.

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