Fundación Arizmendiarrieta’s Post

Reflection of Arizmendiarrieta for today: Work is a path towards personal and communal self-realization, individual perfecting and collective betterment; it is the exponent of a more unquestionable social and humanistic consciousness. #reflectionsofarizmendiarrieta #InclusiveParticipativeCompanyModel #CooperationEconomy #Arizmendiarrieta

Reflection of Arizmendiarrieta for today: The good utilization of the talents of our people, regardless of their economic condition or that of their families, is the fundamental premise of all social action that is directed toward realizing a social order that is more human and more Christian. #reflectionsofarizmendiarrieta #InclusiveParticipativeCompanyModel #CooperationEconomy #Arizmendiarrieta

Reflection of Arizmendiarrieta for today: After the socialization of culture, inevitably follows the socialization of wealth and even of power. We may say that this is the indispensable and prior condition for the democratization and socio-economic progress of a people. #reflectionsofarizmendiarrieta #InclusiveParticipativeCompanyModel #CooperationEconomy #Arizmendiarrieta

Reflection of Arizmendiarrieta for today: Work is, before anything else, both as a service to the community and as a path towards personal development. #reflectionsofarizmendiarrieta #InclusiveParticipativeCompanyModel #CooperationEconomy #Arizmendiarrieta

Reflection of Arizmendiarrieta for today: Young adults who enter the world of work without a clear and positive set of social ideas are a shipwreck in their spiritual life or cowards and traitors to the workers’ movemento. #reflectionsofarizmendiarrieta #InclusiveParticipativeCompanyModel #CooperationEconomy #Arizmendiarrieta

Reflection of Arizmendiarrieta for today: Never before has been so much talk about freedom as there has been during this century. But we have ended with systems and theories that are the negation of all freedom. Never before has been so much talk about the dignity and the value of the human person, yet never before have human beings been respected less, have been diminished more, have been sacrificed with the utmost ease, or has human life been despised as the most worthless thing. Never before has been so much talk of humanity, the common good, the equal interest of social classes, the welfare of humanity —how many absurdities are justified with such pompous terms. Instead, we have reached a social situation in which, worse than ever before, whim and ambition, pride and arrogance, selfishness and the cruelty of the strong are commonplace. The consequences have been in detriment of the true interests of the masses, of human beings, of humanity. We have arrived to this point. #reflectionsofarizmendiarrieta #InclusiveParticipativeCompanyModel #CooperationEconomy #Arizmendiarrieta

Reflection of Arizmendiarrieta for today: One can not sit at someone else’s table indefinitely, without ever contributing anything. Each person has a benefit from society and one must offer to serve and give to society in kind. #reflectionsofarizmendiarrieta #InclusiveParticipativeCompanyModel #CooperationEconomy #Arizmendiarrieta

Reflection of Arizmendiarrieta for today: If the sign of vitality is definitely not to endure but to be reborn, as was well said by a great cooperativist, if cooperativism is not only the diametrical opposite of paternalism but also of conformism and conservatism, and if cooperativism is not tied to any dogmatism, then it is imperative that we remain in the cutting edge of social innovations. This is especially true when these innovations are demanded by a conscience of dignity and freedom, justice and solidarity. Those who share these feelings today do not lack strength. This strength is enormous because these feelings impulse all people of noble spirit. Furhtermore, we believe that there exists a majority of prudent people who are sensible to great ideals such as these. #reflectionsofarizmendiarrieta #InclusiveParticipativeCompanyModel #CooperationEconomy #Arizmendiarrieta

Reflection of Arizmendiarrieta for today: We realize that the much-talked-about socialization will be possible when the stairway to our house, which is shared by several neighbors, is as well taken care of as our apartment; when our children can go to the same schools as those who are less powerful. To accomplish this, let us make sure that the children are well prepared for an authentic equality of opportunities. This socialization will also be possible when the money that we could spend in a luxurious bathroom is invested instead in a rational project to bring water for the whole population so that all will be better served… #reflectionsofarizmendiarrieta #InclusiveParticipativeCompanyModel #CooperationEconomy #Arizmendiarrieta

Reflection of Arizmendiarrieta for today: The emancipation of a class or of a people must begin with the empowerment, more or less massive, of all sectors of society. One does not improve the lot of the masses without the masses. #reflectionsofarizmendiarrieta #InclusiveParticipativeCompanyModel #CooperationEconomy #Arizmendiarrieta