God's Utopian Church

I was listening to a Christian theologian friend of mine speaking about the Messiah's, and St. Paul's, original intention when singing praises of God's here/not-here Kingdom, and potential as a multiculturally inclusive Church, as a countercultural extending family, creolizing out to encompass all human natures to conjoin and rejoin Earth's cooperatively-owned and self-other governing GoldenRule thrivalist nature, bountiful nature, Beloved Cooperative Community global nature. Which got me thinking about the difference between totalitarian state ownership of all cooperative enterprises, devised by Stalin and Lenin and Mao Tse Tung and whatever mess is still continuing in North Korea, as compared to the cooperative network culture of the Basque Region in Spain, and perhaps elsewhere. This difference between cooperative ownership and communist ownership is that cooperativist WinWin feedback loops extend up from grassroot enterprises with authority to govern the full range of their consumer-producer balance within interdependent ecopolitical authorities; whereas communist authority centralized autonomous ownership, so all local cooperative enterprises, including schools and hospitals and tractor factories, were servants owned by the National Communist Mob, which itself functioned less as a democratically self-governing, collectively responsible party, and more like a plutocratic private club for internally disintegrating WinLose strategies, more like dis-organizing crime with military conscription powers than a cooperative coordinating national team of and for governing healthy consumer-producer co-ownership, Which seems to be more or less what my theologian friend sees when he looks at the early Christian post-Messianic extending out family self-regeneratively creolizing counterculturing church, originally composed of those who rather too radically advocated for most anything victimless, and not holding preferences for what today's Christian fundamentalist understands as traditional family values-- clearly not mentored by the Messiah or by the single and celibate advocate St. Paul. The way the Mondragon cooperative network controls this tendency for money and power to become swept up into the top of a central governing body begins with local democratic self-governing ownership and management of cooperative enterprises; a cooperative guild structure. I wonder what our educational system would become if the State did not own the school system but the parents and students and their paid staff owned local educational environments, some inside and some outside, to learn how to cooperatively learn our healthy wealth cost-effective lifestyles together, as both consumers and producers, each equilaterally associated as a cooperative education state department, composed entirely of our rotating in and out cooperative member constituents. I wonder what a cooperatively owned and managed health service would look like, and feel like, and whether we might find a richer therapeutic environment of profoundly creolizing grassroots enrichment there, among staff and other hurt and temporarily co-dependent patients and our pets and extending family visitors, surrounded by trees and frisky squirrels and lettuce-addicted rabbits, therapeutically growing out our family tree toward God's cooperative household of healthing cooperatives. I wonder if educational cooperatives would begin to sound more like health consumer-producer cooperatives, and vice versa, and if all this cooperative ownership, and not anti-communal centralizing totalitarianism, might feel a bit more like God's ecotherapeutic Church.