Small, local communist Ws would enable more state and national communist Ws.

"Well, that co-op just outside of downtown is doing fine. Molly's daughter worked there when she was in high school and said it was the best job she ever had. I guess communists can do some things right."

is an improvement over

"I've never met a communist, but I know they're all stupid and evil. I'm going to vote against anything with the word socialist or communist next to it because [media personality] told me so."

I'm not convinced of this. One could argue that profit is waste. It's an overhead of wealth delivered for value provided. If co-ops are less incentives towards profit, e.g. by not having a tradeable stock to manage, then the pursuit of profit is a lesser priority. This means the overhead is less, which could mean lower prices.

To put it bluntly, if you don't need to pay dividends to shareholders who deliver no value or huge bonuses to executives at the top, maybe the operating costs could be lower. Yes, the cooperative members would take some of that money as profit sharing among the members, but the working class tends to be less sociopathically greedy than those in power.

Definitely open to feedback. This kind of thinking is newer to me