The article frames many of the central dilemmas of my current book manuscript, A Real Revolution Within: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Lost Promise of African American Cooperation. I hope you'll take a look...
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Translating this critique into practice proved difficult work and it raised a practical question: how does one attract new participants to such a movement when the depleting psychologies of late modern capitalism are ascendent?

In his mind, African American cooperative movements were more than a method to accrue economic power; they enacted a readjustment of ideals away from individual wealth accumulation and toward public service, enabling exploited communities to find "new ways of doing things."

Throughout his life, Du Bois theorized consumers' cooperation as a key practice of industrial democracy. I leverage these cooperative investment to reveal Du Bois's critique of the psycho-social regime of capitalism, taking us beyond his theory of the "public and psychological wages" of whiteness.