Dear Michel, this new insight is really impressive. It´s apparent that we are on the brink of something very great!
Sérgio Storch 11-3666.9005 - 11-9753.9701 [email protected] Facebook Sergio Storch <https://www.facebook.com/sergio.storch> Blog: www.sergiostorch.com <http://www.contentdigital.com.br> 2013/3/29 Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> > this proposal will appear april 2 on the p2p blog, > > Michel Bauwens: > > The recent success of a global mobilization (500+ participants and > collectives in 23 countries and over 50 cities) to collaborative map > P2P-driven, commons-oriented, collaboration/sharing-based initiatives in > hispanic countries, has shown a grassroots hunger for more mutual > coordination to enhance the capacity to initiate social change. I would > like to add the hypothesis that what is in the making is not just a new > social imaginery, but also a potential new political subject. To build and > obtain more civic infrastructures to enable and empower autonomous social > production, I believe we must move to mutualize our forces and create a new > set of political, social and economic institutions which can have > ‘transitional’ effects, i.e. prepare the ground for a phase-transition to a > political economy and civilization in which socially and environmentally > friendly free association between autonomous producers and citizens become > the norm. > > *I believe the time is there to start constructing the following three > institutional coalitions:* > > ** The civic/political institution: The Alliance of the Commons* > > An alliance of the commons is an alliance, meeting place and network of > p2p-commons oriented networks, associations, places; who do not have > economic rationales. These alliances can be topical, local, transnational, > etc … An example is the initiative Paris Communs Urbains which is > attempting to create a common platform for urban commons intiatives in the > Paris region; another Parisian/French example is the freecultural network > Libre Savoirs, which is developing a set of policy proposals around digital > rights. (both examples were communicated to me by Lionel Maurel). > > An alliance of the commons is a meeting place and platform to formulate > policy proposals that enhance civic infrastructures for the commons. > > ** The economic institution: the P2P/Commons Globa-local « Phyle »* > > A phyle (as orgiginally proposed by lasindias.net) is a coalition of > commons-oriented, community-supportive ethical enterprises which trade and > exchange in the market to create livelyhoods for commoners and peer > producers engaged in social production. The use of a peer production > licence keeps the created exchange value within the sphere of the commons > and strengthens the existence of a more autonomous counter-economy which > refuses the destructive logic of profit-maximisation and instead works to > increase benefits for their own, but also the emerging global commons. > Phyles created integrated economies around the commons, that render them > more autonomous and insure the social reproduction of its members. > Hyperproductive global phyles that generate well-being for their members > will gradually create a counterpower to the hitherto dominant MNO’s. > > ** The political-economy institution: The Chamber of the Commons* > > In analogy with the well-known chambers of commerce which work on the > infrastructure for for-profit enterprise, the Commons chamber exclusively > coordinates for the needs of the emergent coalitions of commons-friendly > ethical enterprises (the phyles), but with a territorial focus. Their aim > is to uncover the convergent needs of the new commons enterprises and to > interface with territorial powers to express and obtain their > infrastructural, policy and legal needs. > *In short, we need a alliance of the commons to project civil and > political power and influence at every level of society; we need phyles to > strengthen our economic autonomy from the profit-maximizing dominant > system; and we need Chambre of the Commons to achieve territorial policy; > legal and infrastructural conditions for the alternative, human and > nature-friendly political economy to thrive. Neither alone is sufficient, > but together they could be a powerful triad for the necessary phase > transition.* > > -- > P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: > http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ > > _______________________________________________ > P2P Foundation - Mailing list > http://www.p2pfoundation.net > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > >
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