“Everybody had to weigh in,” he laughs. ​“And I think one thing that showed me is that we’re not prepared for democracy at all — in our schooling, our normal work life, people are not given the tools to actually self-manage. If you ask people to invent a democratic work culture from scratch they, like we did, may have something that’s based around antagonism, that’s based around getting your way, that’s based around trying to fight with people until the thing you want happens. And for us, there was a lot of unlearning.”

(also piece has some org names for comrades in similar situation)

Mini question, what is congress interest in this? I know europe has generally better framework around coops, but like thats from socdem times, what do the actors see in this?