One of the most common questions raised about the coop movement is: where did the money come from?

This paper analyzes the economic factors which gave birth to the coops, the causes of their phenomenal growth, and subsequently the stagnation of the coops.

Labor is the basis of capital

Any economic analysis must start with the source of all wealth in society -- human labor. Labor not only creates all value, but also it is the measure of all value. Concretely labor can be equated with a dollar value because labor is the basis for all wealth.

This document has a timeline of political movements and memoirs of a few cadre.

This document was created in the early 2000's to collect program details In preparation for a review of the O.

This is a list of a wide variety of U.S. government, left and resistance movements and organizations.

This memo reviews educational thinking on how children learn to read.

Critique of the Twin Cities Women's Union. Probably published in the late 1970's.

Generally speaking, bourgeois feminism is an analysis of the position of women that sees men as the enemy - it sees the main contradiction in society as one between men and women. But how many women are going to be attracted to a movement that fundamentally questions their relationship to their husbands, families, or boyfriends?

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This document outlines problems of SNCC and then the CO and lists the "Method of Correction" for each of them. It was probably written in the 1980's

This is a dialectical analysis of the contradictions during the history of SNCC. It was probably written in the 1980's

This document draws connections from James Forman's publications to the theory used by the O. Written in the early 2000's.

• The analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another
• A belief, policy or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action
• A scientifically acceptable body of principles offered to explain phenomena

What is the theoretical foundation?

This document explains some of the history in how and why the O established the Child Care Center.

"In order to develop women's leadership, great attention was given to providing child care and to developing a child care program. Child care was first provided in individual homes by volunteer cadre. The home care was soon replaced by a fully licensed program in its own facility that provided care for about 40 infants and preschool children ranging in ages from 6 months through 5 years."

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