Next on the Cooperative Conference agenda might be a global version of the Caja. Priority would go to co-ops which, instead of producing commodities, take them out of the market, replacing them with direct human relations. Capital would go, in short, to dismantling capital. We meet human needs all the time inside of families without commodity exchange. This social metabolism can be extended first to neighbors, then to towns, regions and the world.
Money is a form of indirect and distorted communication about human needs and resources.
Decommodify buyer-seller relations and capital loses all power. Instead of a commodity, need is wed to production through direct discussion of community needs and resources. Attaining concrete freedom means democratizing all aspects of society, replacing the cash nexus with human decisions. Mondragon decommodifies labor power, removing it from the market, a major step. Universalizing the Mondragon model will decapitate capitalism by shutting off absentee accumulation of profit and capital, which remain with workers.