On the issue n. 10-11 of the federal magazine “La cooperazione trentina” (1947) we can read a series of quotes dedicated to cooperation by don Luigi Sturzo:
“Cooperation, in all its forms, must be at the basis of every social reform; and we have to prefer it because it tends, for its specific character, to overcome as much the egotism of the reactionary capitalism and exploiter as that of the political and class struggle-base unionism. Cooperation creates a modern type of private society for social purposes in favour of the community of members, who from the economic bond rise to the forms of moral solidarity both in their own classes and among the members of different classes, linking employee and employer to a common purpose in the context of business. The social function of cooperation has a key role in the structure of society in order to mitigate the social differences that cause class conflicts and political demagogues; and to overcome the economic individualism that doesn’t match at all the complex modern economy. That if the individualism of more than a century ago served to break by us the ancient feudal corporative constraint that paralysed the use of economic forces directed to big industry and freedom of commerce, it left the work and resources of small property at the mercy of production egoisms. It was then that the Rochdale pioneers began the cooperation that in a century had to become an important and productive economic fact.
As one of the oldest cooperative members of the Christian tendency, I allow myself to give you three recommendations:
•That the cooperation promoted by us should be based on the cooperative technique, without indulging in speculation that are against cooperation and its social functions;
• that it should be animated by a rigid morality, without compliances to anyone and without deflecting from the course of action prescribed by Christian morality;
• that it should be kept out of electoral politics, even when political opponents use and abuse their cooperatives in this regard; for that separation of tasks and responsibility among social organisations and political party, that releases both one and the others from responsibilities that are not their own“.

In the Preface of the volume “Problemi attuali della cooperazione” written by Giuseppe Belotti (1947) don Luigi Sturzo writes:
“Our idea of cooperation is free and apolitical. Those who want to make cooperation a means of political gain for themselves or for their part, they are advised to stay away. Cooperation is based on the amicable nature of agreement among members; not divided between minorities and majorities of colour, but united in the spirit of mutual aid and mutual interest. The friends of ”Christian” cooperation use this adjective not to transform the cooperative in a confessional association, but to establish an ethical basis and a resemblance of common convictions that unites the cooperative members in a superior ideal. Neither state interference nor political infiltration; cooperation must be free and responsible. Let the real cooperative members be jealous of this ideal”.