PRE-REGISTER FOR ECO RADICALS
Think cooperatives are just big players in agriculture? It is true that your orange juice and vegetables may come through co-ops. For millions of Americans, so does their electricity. But did you know that co-ops have socialist roots?
Take the ECO RADICALS course to collectively learn about the role that radical, social justice–oriented cooperatives can play in addressing the crises we face from climate breakdown to the struggle for economic democracy.
Pre-register for the community section of this global online course.
https://forms.gle/zoJTC6iaLZEybFESA
The course will open for enrollment on June 23rd at which point we’ll email you asking you to register.
COURSE DATES:
8/26/2026 – 12/14/2026
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is more than an academic seminar. It is an invitation to study the cooperative movement as a practical force for reshaping everyday life and community.
We will trace the historical link between radical cooperativism and ecology through foundational texts, from Robert Owen’s A New View of Society to W.E.B. Du Bois’s Economic Cooperation.
The seminar also draws on Murray Bookchin’s The Ecology of Freedom, Wangari Maathai’s Unbowed, Peter Ranis’s Cooperatives Confront Capitalism, and the work of E.F. Schumacher.
We will read Jason Hickel, Juliet Schor, Dario Azzellini, and Margaret Atwood, whose work sharpens the course’s central question: how can cooperative economics answer a world shaped by ecological crisis, inequality, and exhausted political imagination? Alongside critiques by Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburg, these readings will help you examine modern economic structures and consider how cooperatives might become more than an alternative. They might become a rehearsal for a different future.
Hear what Charli thought about the course:
https://archive.org/details/err_20260509
or Matthias
https://archive.org/details/mmer_20260509.
or Camille
