Longo maï

Longo maï ( Provencal for “It may take a long time”) is a cooperative founded in 1973 that now operates farms at ten locations in five countries . Around 200 people live in the cooperatives, which are run anti-capitalist on the basis of self-administration .

history

The pioneer settlement in Limans

Longo maï sheep

After May 1968 the Swiss apprentice group Hydra and the Viennese group Spartakus merged to form Longo maï. In 1972 they held their founding congress in Basel (Manifesto: The Crisis, An Attack), then they emigrated to Limans near Forcalquier in Provence and opened a cooperative.

Cooperatives

The ten Longo maï cooperatives that are linked in a network:

• Limans
• Chantemerle spinning mill near Briançon (wool processing 12-15 tons per year)
• Mas de Granier, in the village of Caphan in Saint-Martin-de-Crau ( Bouches-du-Rhône ), France ;
• Treynas, Chanéac
• Cabrery, wine and olives
• Ulenkrug, Mecklenburg , Germany ;
• Hof Stopar ⊙ Eisenkappel in Carinthia , Austria
• Farm Montois Undervelier in the Swiss Jura , certified organic
• Uzhhorod , Zakarpattia, Ukraine
• Finca Sonador , Costa Rica

30 years of Radio Zinzine

The office of the cooperative, in which the administrative threads come together (but no directives to the cooperatives are issued), is located in the St. Johanns-Vorstadt in Basel.

The cooperative publishes the news from Longo maï . The European Citizens' Forum and the CEDRI (Comité Européen pour la Défense des Réfugiés et Immigrés) are closely linked, each with its own magazines.

Radio Zinzine , the cooperative radio in Limans, was founded in 1981.

credentials

• Luc Willette: Longo maï. Vingt ans d'utopie communautaire . Syros, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-86738-936-4 .
• Beatriz Graf: Longo maï - revolt and utopia after '68. Social criticism and self-administered life in the European cooperatives . Thesis-Verlag, Egg 2005, ISBN 3-908544-88-2 .
• Andreas Schwab : Country cooperatives Longo maï. Pioneers of a lived utopia . Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85869-560-4 .

Web links

Commons : Longo maï  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pro Longo maï - website of the support association with information about Longo maï

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Friesenbichler: Our wild years: The seventies in Austria . Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78151-6 , pp. 45 ( Google preview ).
2. ^ Organic certificate from Collectif Montois, Longomai , accessed on August 27, 2018