As a member of the Finnish social democratic party, I am happy to see that cooperatives can harness support across the spectrum from communists to libertarians.
In my country the cooperative movement was built on the other hand by the labour movement as the "third branch" along with trade unions and the social democratic party, and on the other hand, by the center-right agrarian party.
In Italy the cooperative economy there has been built by liberal reformers, communists and the Catholic church. I cant think of any economic idea so profound that would be supported by so many from so opposite political leanings.
What I think is especially important is to create platform cooperatives like Resonate, a cooperative alternative to Spotify, that allow anyone from anywhere to join in a matter of few clicks. One of the problems with cooperative model has been that it has not been able to create truly international cooperatives. That is, until Resonate!
Being a Swede, I have some interest myself in these historical tendencies. (We've had similar and overlapping movements, for obvious reasons) These are all possible applications that you mention of course and many probably quite good at that, but it should be said again that Cooperative Agorism is not limited to Konkins traditional Agorism or to Co-Ops. Such confusions could happen easily and severely hold back the movement.
It's good to see a social democrat comment positively on a "capitalists" blog. I would much more so prefer we got along and created those things we can all agree that we would benefit from, rather than simply stay dug down in our trenches... once in while firing over at the other side.
Center libertarians (most often simply called "right wing" libertarians) sure could learn a lot from studying the successes of past socialist movements in general I think. As we have always been in oposition to most states and often the concept of the state as such, we have had an unfortunate tendency to get reactionary (often right leaning) and reject anything it got involved in, as well as any strategy involving any kind of support network as being "collectivist" simply because it was championed either by the left or the right.
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Have you considered taking part in elections in Swedish cooperatives or building societies?
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I will be focused on other areas for now, but I'm absolutely open to working within parties and participating in parlamentary politics. The actual available parties that would fit me well are scarce of course, but I see many possible alliances.
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