ABSTRACT
In this light, it is useful to view the concept of the Solidarity Economy as a proposal to decolonize livelihoods, collective action, and politics from the predominance of the instrumental logic of procedural rationality, which is at the core of a conception of public life that was spread around the world as a result of Western colonialism. As an alternative, Solidarity Economy proposes a perspective on public life which reconciles substantive rationality with the “logic of the better argument,” which according to Habermas (1981) defines the procedural rationality that structures the Western public sphere. Such decolonizing reconciliation is based on:
1 An economic logic that is the opposite of that of mass production. Productivity and profit are not ends in themselves, but are desirable solely to the extent they promote social emancipation.
