Social economy and transformative unionism: reflections and proposals for joint strategies
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Abstract
This article presents a series of proposals for collaboration between unionism and the social economy
with a transformative vocation (EST). EST entities can be relevant agents if the objective is to achieve democratic
control of productive processes and advance the improvement of Life as an antagonistic project to the capitalist
economy whose objective is the accumulation of capital. Alternative and/or transformative unionism, if it shares
this objective, is in a position to face new opportunities linked to the promotion of EST. In the first introductory
point, a series of basic elements are proposed to characterize the capitalist economy and, at the same time, transformative
economies. The bases for a transformative socioeconomic strategy that aims to advance towards the
so-called “vital sovereignty” are set out below. The third point addresses the relationship between a certain alternative
or transformative unionism and the promotion of a social economy with a transformative vocation. The article
ends with a series of notes and endings and conclusions.
