Today is Day 4 of Kwanzaa
Ujamaa (oo-JAH-mah) Cooperative Economics
"To build our own businesses, control the economics of our own community and share in all its work and wealth."
The Fourth Principle is Ujamaa and is essentially a commitment to the practice of shared social wealth and the work necessary to achieve it. It grows out of the fundamental communal concept that social wealth belongs to the masses of people who created it and that no one should have such an unequal amount of wealth that it gives him/her the capacity to impose unequal, exploitative or oppressive relations on others (41). Sharing wealth is another form of communitarian exchange, i.e., sharing and cooperating in general. But it is essential because, without the principle and practice of shared wealth, the social conditions for exploitation, oppression, and inequality as well as deprivation and suffering are increased.
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