Co-operativism in a system of capitalist mode of production

Abstract

The main argument in this dissertation is that which according to Weber - . - was inspired by the Puritan Ethic might nor be the right answer for the maintenance of social order. The argument is based on Weber's thesis tbt the thrift and frugality of early capitalism gave way to a high level of consumerism which translated itself into extravagance. This is what distorted the personality of the members of society. To support this thesis reference is being made to English and Europe historians, such as H.R. Lyons. H. Hearder and A.J. Patrick together with the sociologist R.K. Menon. These are complimented from quotes from papal encyclicals through H.Carrier from Pope Leo XIII 's Re:-um Novarum up to the present Pope Paul John II 's Laborem Exercens. condemning abuses and the degradation of workers by Capitalists. Debate moves on to the key factors for a successful maintenance of social order such as those of Zimmerman's 'Babbit' and Robert O:iksshot's 'Madrigon Groups'. What f am looking forward is as much of what sociologist and philosophers have dreamt of the' Garden of Eden·. I have illustrated as an example on what I am sustaining - Zimmerman's 'Babbit' , a Canadian prairie, which has survived the 1930s depression, because there was the feeling of the 'Common Good' and also due to the fact that the prairie did not spoil its children. This is the core of my thesis. I have cited Novak's book 'The Common Good and the Free Persons' to elaborate what I see as an idea[ for 'Co-operativism in a system of Capitalistic mode of production'. Suffice to cite an excerpt from this book for the reader to understand my arguments: ". Thus the common good is the inner dynamo of human progress, rooted in the human' s capacity to reflect upon his or her own actions to grasp the deficiencies and incompleteness and to choose to press on towards the full development of the entire range of human possibilities. [...]