The social solidarity economy: from theory to practice

Abstract

A contemporary idea-force saturates theoretical and empirical production of a critical nature; we are immersed in a civilizational crisis of great magnitude that we can see through its most pressing expressions: migrations, ecological catastrophes, wars, the erosion of stable democratic forms, etc. Although this idea is already common sense in a good part of the world's intelligentsia, it must be qualified with the due sobriety of those who cultivate the pessimism of reason, but retain some healthy optimism in their will. And not because its manifestations are not a worrying and urgent reality that must be addressed, but because alongside the perverse effects of this crisis there are multiple projects for the reorganization of life that arise in the communities of peoples and societies as a countertendency that responds to its effects.