his great ascendancy in the Governing and Social Councils of ULGOR. In 1965 Arizmendiarrieta personally promoted the Alecop student industrial cooperative. To finance his installations, he requested subsidies from public bodies and a loan from the Labour Bank, which requested guarantors. Arizmendiarrieta went to several professors of the Professional School to sign them, one of them being the future founder and director of the Ikerlan Research Center, Manolo Quevedo, ”I replied that I would sign, but after obtaining the approval of my wife, because we already had three small daughters. Endorsing a company in which the partners and managers were going to be the students, and the guarantors would not have any connection, was certainly unusual”. Controversies Arizmendiarrieta developed his concept of human enterprise through action and practice, which generated controversies that can be grouped into five areas: - In 1941 Arizmendiarrieta arrived to Mondragon with his ideology of the social doctrine of the Church, where the worker finds satisfaction in his job, as an intelligent and responsible human being. He began his career in the Locksmith Union Apprentice School and in the Catholic Action, and at that time he wrote that the workers saw the church at the service of the state: “The Army, the clergy and the Falange (the fascist party of the head of the government, the dictator Franco) are the three claws of the capitalist». Likewise, they saw the Church on the side of the winners of the civil war. For this reason, he established a catalog of three virtues for the priest who wanted to act in the working environment: freedom, austerity and diligence. - In 1956 he was about to be deported by the Civil Governor of Gipuzkoa, as he was considered the main person responsible for the workers' strikes of that year. Also, in 1965 and 1969 he was accused by the Governor that the Professional School was a focus of politicization and subversion, when the students participated in the acts of the "Day of the Basque Homeland" (Aberri Eguna). And also in 1969, the Governor intended to “put the arrogant cooperativists of Mondragon on the verge and get them to surrender at his feet, engaged in unspeakable and dangerous desires for emancipation, whose rebellious attitude could infect the rest of the Basque Country.” - In 1960 the first criticisms of the local and regional capitalist businessmen began, directly and through the Official