<g>, can't remember where I saw it, but it resonated .. On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Lynn Foster <[email protected]> wrote:
> I liked the phrase "over-developed world" quite a lot. Good to get these > useful descriptive phrases out there. > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> thanks for considering these proposals: >> >> also via >> http://p2pfoundation.net/Proposed_Strategy_for_the_Commons_Movement_in_2015 >> and next week on the blog: >> >> Michel Bauwens, Galway, August 31, 2015: >> >> "What do we need to work on NOW ? >> >> We are definitely going to a period of dislocation in 2015. The Greek >> debacle has shown the difficulty of any strategy based on national >> sovereignty and the end of political democracy for European nations ; the >> difficulties in China , Brazil and elswhere show the period of high growth >> for emerging economies has come to an end; and the success of candidates >> like Donald Trump, which obtains 40% approval rating by promising to deport >> fifteen million people, shows the potential return of barbarism in the >> heart of the over-developed world. >> >> Do we have any realistic perspective at change right now ? In the current >> conjuncture, there are still mass political mobilizations that seem to have >> potential, and we are thinking here about the emergence of social justice >> candidates in Spain (En Comu, Podemos), Corbyn in the UK and Sanders in the >> U.S. Our CommonsTransition.org initiative, led by Stacco Troncoso, aims at >> bringing commons and peer production alternatives to these movements, so as >> to avoid too strong focuses on statist solutions. However, the evolution in >> Greece should of course caution to any overt optimism, for example at the >> level of the real openness of such movements for commons and civic >> alternatives, as well as their true willingness to challenge the status quo. >> >> But I think the more long-term focus is to work on the civic-economic >> front, i.e. building alternative new modes of productions, new relations of >> production, and new property and governance models, right now, i.e. to >> 'hurry slowly' in rebuilding a true alternative base for different >> political and civic mobilizations. >> >> I have discussed elsewhere our political proposals , i.e. our proposals >> for the re-organization of emancipatory politics around the commons, >> through Assemblies and Chambers of the Commons, and our wish to see Commons >> Transition Circles. >> >> Here I would like to focus on the economic proposals. How do we create a >> new commons-oriented social fabric around the creation of livelihoods ? >> >> Three strategies come to mind: >> >> - a first level is the work that we need to do to create >> commons-centric entrepreneurial models, based or inspired by open >> cooperativism, i.e. models in which the commoners co-own and co-govern >> entrepreneurial forms that co-create commons. Come to mind the work of >> lasindias.com, a more collectivist form; the work of Enspiral, a >> coalition of 250+ social entrepreneurs working with the Loomio open source >> platform for democratic decision-making and the co-budget enterpreneurial >> commons for re-investement; and the Ethos Foundation led by Robert Pye, >> who >> is experimenting with fair forms of equity >> >> >> - the second level of work is to work on territirial economic >> eco-systems in which the flows of commons-created value becomes more >> integrated ; indeed, even as we are now able to return to more crafts-like >> form of ownership of the means of production, thanks to distributed >> manufacturing, the power of control still lies in the broader systems, not >> just in the mere ownership of 3D printing machines and microfactories; so >> the efforts like the one of Stephanie Rearick and team in the Mutual Aid >> Network in Madison, Wisconsin; mapping efforts like encommuns.org in >> Lille, and initiative like SolidarityNYC are very important at this state >> ; >> virtual efforts at more global organizing like the FairCoop project are >> also important. >> >> >> - the third level of work, where we still see very little happening, >> as far as I know, is at the level of platforms that would challenge the >> ownership, control and value extraction models of netarchical capitalism >> (Uber, AirBnB, Facebook) ; this is the necessary work of the creation of >> platform cooperatives, and the conference organized by Trebor Scholz and >> Nathan Schneider in New York in November, will be a good start to evaluate >> the state of the art. >> >> >> None of these three strategies, all of which have started but are very >> emergent, will solve urgent crisis, but they will set the stage for a more >> broader transition later on. I am personally convinced that progressive >> strategies for resistance and change, like the ones we saw in Greece, that >> have no serious commons component, are in a great danger of failure ; and >> we know that neoliberal forces will use nominal commons strategies in their >> strategy to destroy the solidarity mechanisms of the welfare state >> >> In our vision, i.e. the integration of the economic work of peer >> production, outlined just above, and the broader work of social and >> political re-organization around commons-centric institutions, which will >> set the stage for a rebirth of an offensive social and political movement >> that will have a good chance to promote a phase transition to a >> commons-centric political, social and economic society." >> >> >> >> -- >> Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: >> http://commonstransition.org >> >> 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/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetworkedLabour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkedLabour mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour > > -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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/
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