John Curl > Quotes

“Being an employee was considered a form of bondage, only a step above indentured servitude.”
― John Curl, For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America

“It has been often said that the winners write history. Cooperatives have been widespread and important in many periods of American history, and more people are members of cooperatives today than ever before. Yet it might almost seem as if they don’t exist and never existed in the US, because cooperatives are almost universally absent from history classes and almost never appear in the American media. An unbalanced emphasis has been placed on the self-reliant, individualistic frontiersman as typical of the Westward movement of American history, while this has only been one element in a much more complex situation.”
― John Curl, For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America