‘Critical Theory and the Critique of Alternative Societies: Co-operatives, Mutual Aid and Universal Basic Income’ by Neal Harris reviewed by Domonkos Sik (opens in new tab)

Neal Harris is taking on a daunting quest: critiquing those emancipatory movements that, by their own definition and according to the mainstream view of Marxist and critical sociology, are supposed to widen the ‘cracks’ in capitalist system. Workers’ co-operatives, mutual aid groups and universal basic income initiatives represent three different forms of ‘alternative societies’, a label which refers to non-capitalist organizational forms and distributional mechanisms. By experimenting with f...