Longo Mai

Longo maï ( Provencal for "It may take a long time " ) is a cooperative founded in 1973, which now operates farms at ten locations in five countries. Around 200 people live in the cooperatives, which are anti-capitalist operated on the basis of self-government.

History

After May 1968, the Swiss apprentice group Hydra and the Vienna Group Spartacus joined together to Longo maï. 1972, they held their founding congress in Basel from (Manifesto: The crisis, an attack ), then they went to Provence after Liman at Forcalquier, and opened a cooperative. The first years were marked by the expansion. The ideological leadership figure was Roland Perrot. In 1979 in Switzerland, a press campaign: Longo maï were accused of squandering of donations, authoritarian internal structures and a champagne -like structure. Nevertheless, the cooperative survived until today.

Cooperatives

The ten Longo Mai cooperatives, which are connected together in a network:

  • Liman
  • Spinning Chantemerle to Briançon ( wool processing 12 15 tons per year)
  • Mas de Granier, in the village Caphan in Saint-Martin- de -Crau ( Bouches -du- Rhone), France;
  • Treynas, Chanéac
  • Cabrery, wine and olives
  • Ulenkrug, Mecklenburg, Germany;
  • Yard Stopar iron Kappel in Carinthia, Austria
  • Yard Montoises Undervelier in the Swiss Jura
  • Uzhgorod, Transcarpathia, Ukraine
  • Finca Sonador, Costa Rica

The office of the cooperative, in which the administrative matters end (but no directives are issued to the co-operatives ), located in the St. John's suburb in Basel.

The cooperative publishes the Longo Mai messages. Closely related is the European Citizens' Forum and the CEDRI each with their own magazines.

  • Free Radio Zinzine: The cooperative radio iin Liman was founded in 1981.

Credentials

  • Luc Willette: Longo maï. Vingt ans d' utopia communautaire. Syros, Paris 1993. ISBN 2-86738-936-4.
  • Beatriz Count: Longo maï - revolt and utopia '68. Social criticism and self-governing life in the European cooperatives. Thesis -Verlag, Egg 2005, ISBN 3-908544-88-2.
  • Andreas Schwab: Country cooperatives Longo maï. Pioneers of a lived utopia. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-85869-560-4.
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