co-ops

[latefordinner]

again I say look at Mondragon, they are a good example of a very large multinational "cooperative corporation" (I think they do about $5bil worth of business annually) that are both competing in the global capitalist market and also trying to balance that with cooperative principles.(certainly with some tension and some failures and many successes)

I think it is a model that ACers would find very interesting as in my mind it is sort of an amalgamation of different AC and AS principles that are being put into practice with some concessions to a State Capitalist marketplace.
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hmk: sorry but I don't think the failures of your collective living situation are a very relevant point. I could point to lots of examples where the same model has worked quite well where the collective members themselves recognized certain problems relating to accountability or incentives or fairness or whatever and found a way to resolve them while still remaining true to their principles.

In fact, I bet if you take any member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities that has been a community for more than 5 years there has been a significant problem at some point in that 5 years relating in a direct or tangential way to some of the issues you all found that was successfully resolved.