Cooperativism encompasses a range of cooperative practices and values that challenge the status quo while, at the same time, creating alternative modes of economic, cultural, social, and political life. Throughout the 20th century, cooperative modes of organising social, cultural, and economic life proved to be viable alternatives to centrally planned or capitalist modes of production, distribution, and consumption, and in the recent years have emerged with new dynamism.
Cooperativism as the social movement strives to foster social and economic rights and meet everyday needs of people through voluntary associations called co-operatives.
