Cooperativism as a human principle

Abstract

The article analyzes the ways of the advent of cooperativism as a human principle in comparison with some precepts of the epistemology of modern society, as was the case with individuality. Modern rationality has, first of all, absorbed the precept of individuality, whether by the pursuit of the right to private property, and the historical construction of universal rights of citizenship. However, even seeming contradictory, from a dialectical logic, there is the emergence of cooperativism when the consolidation of capitalist relations, precisely as a way of overcoming individuality established in relations of production. For this, the concept of cooperation is initially recovered, and as this is a constitutive process of living beings, especially of human society. It is also analyzed how this process of human cooperation suffers interference and fractures, as well as is shaken by the construction of the rational precept of individuality, human and environmental degradation. It is necessary and urgent to present and discuss world proposals, such as the United Nations, for the establishment of new relations between people and with nature. Finally, it proposes the need to rescue and enhance the principles and, especially, practices of cooperativism as a necessary and urgent condition to overcome the present conditions of the human world society.

Keywords: Cooperativism. Regional development. Human welfare.