The social basis of cooperatives

…In the early 20th century, he conducted theoretical studies and criticism of historical materialism, developed his own socialist ideas influenced by Kant, and developed an interest in cooperatives as a way to realize them. He later became a leading theorist and activist, wrote the magnum opus The Social Foundations of Cooperatives (1916), which influenced the cooperative movement in Eastern Europe, and was elected chairman of the All-Russian Congress of Cooperatives in 1917. His economics, Principles of Economics (1909), was widely read as an economics textbook at the time. …

*The following is a partial explanation of the term "the social foundations of cooperatives."

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…20世紀初頭，史的唯物論の理論的検討と批判を進め，カントの影響を受けた独自の社会主義思想を展開，これを現実化するものとして協同組合への関心を深めた。のちにその指導的理論家，活動家となり，東欧諸国の協同組合運動に影響を与えた大著《協同組合の社会的基礎》(1916)を書き，1917年全ロシア協同組合会議議長に選ばれた。また彼の経済学を集大成した《経済学原理》(1909)は当時，経済学のテキストとして広く読まれた。…

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