Politics & principles
Our north star is a belief in an economy owned and controlled by artists and workers.
What are your politics?
We are focused on building economic democracy through collective ownership. Rather than getting caught up in ideological labels, we are interested in practical solutions that give artists and workers real power over both their workplace and the platforms they depend on.
If you called it market socialism, you would technically be correct. You could also call it platform cooperativism, distributism, mutualism, solidarity economics, or just common sense. It does not matter to us. What matters is creating a music ecosystem where artists and workers are in control.
Cooperative lineage
Subvert is part of a long tradition. The cooperative movement traces back to the Rochdale weavers in 1844 and has shaped enterprises from credit unions to grocery chains to Mondragón, the largest worker-owned federation in the world. We did not invent any of this. We are applying a proven model to a part of the economy where it has not yet taken hold.
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