ACFA: Question About Cooperative. No 1

Question 1: What Is The Concept At Which The Co-Operative Foundation Is Laid?

Answer: “The co-operative ideal is as old as human society. It is the idea of conflict and competition as a principle of economic progress that is new. The development of the ideal of co-operation in the nineteenth century can best be understood as an attempt to make explicit a principle which is inherent in the constitution of society but which had been forgotten in the turmoil and disintegration of rapid economic change.”