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The Co-Operative Movement

Qualitymark · 2013-03-17 13:33:01

AE on Horace Plunkett: So how did that go?

17-03-2013 1:33pm

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AE on Horace Plunkett:

There was the economic movement promoted by that great Irish statesman, Sir Horace Plunkett. Instead of talking to farmers about what the state might or should do for them he showed them what they could and ought to do for themselves. He made them self-reliant.

He brought over a thousand farmers' associations into being, dairy and agricultural and credit societies, with trade federations binding them together. Those associations were all trying to manufacture and market their products efficiently.

Instead of working individually, every man for himself and the devil take the rest, they began to work together, to buy together, to manufacture together, to market together. The agricultural atoms conspired to create an organism so developed that there arose in it that consciousness of identity of interest which was the ancient Greek conception of citizenship.

It was not only a great economic achievement, but a great moral achievement, and the spirit engendered in that movement overflowed and affected Irishmen in other movements.

So how did that go?

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