Solidarity Finance for the development of Solidarity Markets. The experience of the Fairs of the National University of Quilmes (2010-2012)

Abstract

The paper presents and analyzes the experience of building markets and solidarity finance developed from the University Project Building Entrepreneurial Networks in Social Economy of the Southern Observatory of Social and Solidarity Economy of the Department of Economics and Administration of the National University of Quilmes ( UNQ), in conjunction with the Social and Solidarity Economy Promotion Board, between 2010 and 2012.

Thecurrentdynamics of theproduction of goods and services, hegemonizedbythedynamics of theaccumulation of capital, leads tothedeterioration of societies, thenature and thesameforms of exchangethatcapitalismforged, prioritizingthefinancialization of theeconomy. Thepromotion and strengthening of practicesthatpromoteforms of circulation and exchangesthat are alternativetothehegemoniconesimpliestheconstruction of appropriatedevicesforthedevelopment of suchpractices, withtheaim of increasingtheseexchanges and acquiringdynamic vigor.

In this sense, the construction of Solidarity Markets is a demonstration that itis possible to develop experiences that promote the circulation and exchange of goods and services with the purpose of satisfying the needs and there production of the lives of the people involved. Above all, from the local productive forces that translatein to the work of self-managedenter prises, labor cooperatives and companies recovered. On the otherhand, for these productive capacities (supply) to have a social validation, it is necessary to develop a series of devices that guarantee the consolidation of the demand. It is for this reason that the introduction of a social currency from a credit systemenhances the possibility of this happening. These two initiatives, the construction of a solidarity market and a solidary finance system allow to reduce intermediation in the satisfaction of needs and to foster dialogue and direct exchange between producers and consumers.