Cooperativa de sisal sociedade anônima.

Abstract

Historically, the emergence of cooperativism, at the beginning of the last century, had the goal of opposing the capitalist socio-economic system. His ideologues had hoped for the best path-that, with the example and dissemination of concrete experiences, he would be able to transform society peacefully and gradually. However, the fantastic evolution of this system suffocates the experiences and the ideal of a collectivist cooperativism within capitalist society, propagated by the so-called socialist-associationists (BENEVIDES PINHO 1966) or, more precisely, utopian socialists. His basic idea of ​​a peaceful transformation of society was criticized by Karl Marx, who, if he relegated cooperativism as an effective organization of labor, defended the idea that such a transformation would never take place in the proposed way. Generally these facts are omitted or minimized in the main by the compendia of cooperativism.