The tension between Fagor Household Appliances and the Mondragon Corporation has been the strongest in the history of the sector, which has been characterized by its reluctance. The Corporation remains silent. Because it is natural, whatever is right, that whoever is going to sink wants to breathe at all costs, and whoever denies more aid does not want to be put at risk. What has not been done well in the past has no immediate solution.

Now there are three important works left: to see if the activity can be saved at the last moment, to heal the wounds as effectively as possible and to make as strong a reflection as possible to other companies of the corporation so that the same does not happen. Mondragon's cooperatives and the social economy in general will be important subjects for those of us who work. During these weeks, different areas are being noted, most of which are related to employment, financing and management, the latter in most cases in search of responsibilities. But through loopholes, conversations and opinions, you can also see the deeper holes, like those that relate to the cooperative spirit of ditxoso.

“But what cooperative spirit and what demontre, there have been some management errors that can be given exactly the same in the capitalist or cooperative enterprise.” And you can say that that, no doubt, but in theory is one of the distinguishing features of the cooperative and the anonymous company, that the use and management of power are also different, from the election of positions to the most powerful decisions. And the mistakes, in Mondragon's long and extensive experience, that's worked and it works. All this has not been a lie in Fagor ELECTRODOMESTICOS, nor in the other cooperatives, although in all of them there are very different governance situations than those of the previous cooperative.

In the last 15 years, Arrasate cooperatives have had major debates about the loss of cooperative spirit. This loss is admitted to the upper organs of MONDRAGON, more likely than among the basic cooperatives, and from there it cannot come well. Has it, for example, affected the sinking of household appliances? How do you measure that? Who? How did Fagor's cooperatives participate in Brandt's purchase? Why did the cooperatives not first decide on a deeper reconversion? Did you propose it? Did the cooperatives, at least a significant critical mass, have enough information and education to be able to decide properly? Is it possible that grassroots cooperative workers can decide in a cooperative of thousands of people? Or, as Councillor Arantza Tapia says, must we change governance and it is already there? Do not the multinationals that make decisions quickly sink? Is that OK soon? Good for whom? Of course, these are as many questions as you want, and they have to be asked. Obviously, the answers are also diverse and very different, and the sensitivity and depth with cooperativism are both different. It is also different in the consequences of the sinking, as has already been seen on many occasions in Mondragon, and as will also be seen in the Fagor crisis.

That is why it is key to cooperativism in the future to investigate and reflect on the loss of that spirit. And it's an evil. Among other things, because in times of crisis, the important thing is to get out of the crisis, and for that, the fundamental thing is to produce well, to be competitive, to be able to survive. How to combine the training and production time of the cooperatives?

It is not an easy reflection, but it is also necessary to do so and socialise, if cooperation is to be maintained. Power and management are intimately linked, and the future of cooperativism, which does not participate in regular management, has its consequences. Modern management cultures have placed a great deal of weight on worker participation, on the feelings of the company itself, and on production, at least, it is a good result. It is ineffective in terms of the distribution of results, as it is the one that supports the most capital. Cooperativism and the social economy offer the possibility of combining three key components: capital, distribution of powers and management. If there are possibilities, they must be exploited.