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Vitanovych called cooperation a spiritual protest of human social nature against predatory self-love, against physical violence of the stronger against the weaker, it is a belief in truth and justice of a person who is not deprived of human dignity and spiritual virtues, in particular the highest of them - love for one's neighbour. While in the context of capitalisation, labour becomes a heavy yoke for a person, and most of its fruits are taken by soulless capital, in cooperative cooperation, human labour, which is built on a voluntary basis, takes on a different meaning. Here, all those who work for themselves - entrepreneurs, merchants, and bankers - distribute the wealth they have created. This is the greatest value of cooperation. According to I. Vytanovych, Ukrainian cooperation knew many different forms of self-help and cooperation, despite centuries of captivity, and kept a deep sense of truth and justice. But in the socio-economic conditions of the time, neither Christian charity nor the good traditions of neighbourly self-help of our ancestors were enough to save the disadvantaged strata of the population.

The book is intended for readers interested in the cooperative movement: scholars, teachers, students.