Uploaded August 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This is a continuation of a discussion with Cath Muller of Radical Routes and Footprint Co-op in Leeds, who hitch-hiked on a sail boat across the Atlantic, to check out co-ops in the States. Here she talks about the differences between co-ops on either side of the pond. The first part of the conversation is here - youtube.com/watch?v=OElREVJWL4A&list=PLNNdLYx-Mxhbe_aUBk4PDrDQWEUlWlyMo&index=14&t=340s.
We’re interviewing key players in the new economy, to:
a) bring their work to a wider audience
b) try to find ways to co-ordinate their efforts
c) stimulate debate
d) help to grow the new economy.
By new economy, we mean an economy whose component parts are democratic and non-extractive, rather than undemocratic and extractive.
Lowimpact.org: lowimpact.org
Open Credit Network: https://opencredit.network/
Radical Routes: radicalroutes.org.uk
Here's a transcript of the interview, with links to organisations mentioned in the video: lowimpact.org/cath-muller-radical-routes-uk-us-coop
Thanks also to the Open Co-op: https://open.coop/
Highlights
1. Any surplus generated should be for the people who generated it.
2. The idea of giving up precarious individual lives for plentiful collective lives, where you’re accountable to other people that you know, rather than being accountable to the state or to corporations seems to me like more liberty, not less.
3. In the UK, we talk about worker members of co-ops, but in the US they talk about worker owners, and the idea that every member owns a share of the co-op is crucially important.
4. What I’d like to do next, if I can, is to develop a commune based on Twin Oaks. 100 to 200 people. (in Yorkshire)
This is a continuation of a discussion with Cath Muller of Radical Routes and Footprint Co-op in Leeds, who hitch-hiked on a sail boat across the Atlantic, to check out co-ops in the States. Here she talks about the differences between co-ops on either side of the pond. The first part of the conversation is here - youtube.com/watch?v=OElREVJWL4A&list=PLNNdLYx-Mxhbe_aUBk4PDrDQWEUlWlyMo&index=14&t=340s.
We’re interviewing key players in the new economy, to:
a) bring their work to a wider audience
b) try to find ways to co-ordinate their efforts
c) stimulate debate
d) help to grow the new economy.
By new economy, we mean an economy whose component parts are democratic and non-extractive, rather than undemocratic and extractive.
Lowimpact.org: lowimpact.org
Open Credit Network: https://opencredit.network/
Radical Routes: radicalroutes.org.uk
Here's a transcript of the interview, with links to organisations mentioned in the video: lowimpact.org/cath-muller-radical-routes-uk-us-coop
Thanks also to the Open Co-op: https://open.coop/
Highlights
1. Any surplus generated should be for the people who generated it.
2. The idea of giving up precarious individual lives for plentiful collective lives, where you’re accountable to other people that you know, rather than being accountable to the state or to corporations seems to me like more liberty, not less.
3. In the UK, we talk about worker members of co-ops, but in the US they talk about worker owners, and the idea that every member owns a share of the co-op is crucially important.
4. What I’d like to do next, if I can, is to develop a commune based on Twin Oaks. 100 to 200 people. (in Yorkshire)
