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The essay argues that while cooperatives have sought to navigate and resist capitalist imperatives, their integration into market systems often requires navigating contradictions inherent in competing with capitalist firms. It concludes by considering the potential of platform cooperatives in the digital age to revive and adapt cooperative principles for contemporary challenges, emphasizing the need for a re-politicization of cooperatives to ensure they remain true to their foundational principles of mutual aid, autonomy, and communal benefit.