Thanks, Michel! On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 6:26 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a really brilliant overview of commons urbanism , with real > production, trends by Kevin Carson, > > you in cc are all liberally cited, as is my own work and I very much like > the way Kevin Carson uses the partner state to bridge it with the more > libertarian vision of associationism or federative governance, > > really a must read > > > > Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition > > * Report: Libertarian Municipalism: Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms > for Post-Capitalist Transition. By Kevin Carson, C4SS (Center for a > Stateless Society), 2017 > > URL = https://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/community-platforms.pdf > > Description[edit] > > "Peak Oil (and other fossil fuels) is creating pressure to shorten global > supply and distribution chains. At the same time, the shift in advantage > from military technologies for power projection to technologies for area > denial means that the imperial costs of enforcing a globalized economic > system of outsourced production under the legal control of Western capital > are becoming prohibitive. > > The same technological trends that are reducing the total need for labor > also, in many cases, make direct production for use in the informal, social > and household economies much more economically feasible. Cheap open-source > CNC machine tools, networked information and digital platforms, Permaculture > and community gardens, alternative currencies and mutual credit systems, all > reduce the scale of feasible production for many goods to the household, > multiple household and neighborhood levels, and similarly reduce the capital > outlays required for directly producing consumption needs to a scale within > the means of such groupings. > > Put all these trends together, and we see the old model of secure livelihood > through wages collapsing at the same time new technology is destroying the > material basis for dependence on corporations and the state. > > But like all transitions, this is a transition not only from something, but > to something. That something bears a more than passing resemblance to the > libertarian communist future Pyotr Kropotkin described in The Conquest of > Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops: the relocalization of most > economic functions into mixed agricultural/industrial villages, the control > of production by those directly engaged in it, and a fading of the > differences between town and country, work and leisure, and brain-work and > muscle-work. > > In this paper, we will examine the emerging distributed and commons-based > economy, as a base for post-capitalist transition, at three levels: the > micro-village and other forms of cohousing/co-production, the city or town > as a unit, and regional and global federations of cities." > > > Excerpt[edit] > > Kevin Carson: > > "In particular, it is to a large extent a transition to a post-capitalist > society centered on the commons. > > As Michel Bauwens puts it, the commons paradigm replaces the traditional > Social Democratic paradigm in which value is created in the “private” (i.e. > corporate) sector through commodity labor, and a portion of this value is > redistributed by the state and by labor unions, to one in which value is > cocreated within the social commons outside the framework of wage labor and > the cash nexus, and the process of value creation is governed by the > co-creators themselves. Because of the technological changes entailed in > what Bauwens calls “cosmo-local” production (physical production that's > primarily local, using relatively small-scale facilities, for local > consumption, but using a global information commons freely available to all > localities), the primary level of organization of this commons-based society > will be local. > > Cosmo-local (DGML = Design Local, Manufacture Local) production is governed > by the following principles: > > • Protocol cooperativism: the underlying immaterial and algorithmic > protocols are shared and open source, using copyfair principles (free > sharing of knowledge, but commercialization conditioned by reciprocity) • > Open cooperativism: the commons-based coops are distinguished from > ‘collective capitalism’ by their commitment to creating and expanding common > goods for the whole of society; in Platform coops it is the platforms > themselves that are the commons, needed to enable and manage the exchanges > that may be needed, while protecting it from capture by extractive > netarchical platforms • Open and contributive accounting: fair distribution > mechanisms that recognize all contributions • Open and shared supply chains > for mutual coordination • Non-dominium forms of ownership (the means of > production are held in common for the benefit of all participants in the > eco-system." > > -- > Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org > > P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > 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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