Sustainable Community Movement Organizations (SCMOs): Reinvigorating cooperatives and mutualités via Post-Capitalistic Practices

Sustainable Community Movement Organizations (SCMOs) are practice-based movement actors whose main aim is to bring different collectives together to help them developing a post-capitalistic socio-economic system in which the overriding object of profit maximization is substituted by cooperation, solidarity, and mutualism. While sharing several common traits with social movement organizations of the past, such actors tend to bypass the traditional state-addressing repertoires of action, and to focus on changing society as part of everyday politics, where the public and private spheres are increasingly blurred. Although with some differences due to their specific geographical origin, as highlighted in this chapter, SCMOs share several common traits regarding both their motivations and repertoire of action.