A Look at Some Noncapitalist Modes of Development

The Mondragon cooperatives in Spain are run according to a mode of development called the Cooperative Mode of Development. It's considered a type of socialism. You can run things to make a profit under socialism.

Formally you have the Capitalist Mode of Development, which must consist of exploitation of labor or else it's not capitalism.

Then you have the State Socialist Mode of Development like they had in many communist countries and any socialist-type country that has government firms. It absolutely does not make a profit, and there are all sorts of problems with it as we saw in the collapse of the USSR.

Next you have the self-employed or artists, people like that. This even includes family-run enterprises.

I know Vietnam strongly encourages businesses that consist of a single worker or a family. They consider single proprietors and family owned businesses to be a good alternative to big capitalism.

It's considered a noncapitalist form of development because there's lots of competit…