A Parallel between Socialism and Cooperatism

This article sets out to present a parallel between the socialist and the cooperative doctrine, made by Professor Nicolae Ghiulea and exposed in a conference in 1946. Leaving utopian conceptions, sentimentality and related ideologies aside, Ghiulea strictly refers to the scientific socialism built by Marx and Engels, and the modern cooperative, with its principles established by the equitable Rochdale pioneers. Apparently divergent notions, we shall see that the two systems are similar and connected in many ways. Nevertheless, the professor also points out the differences that singularize them.