---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jakob Rigi <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 11:38 PM Subject: Re: [Networkedlabour] Another world is possible, yes, of course, but why build it? To: [email protected], [email protected] A very interesting reflection. As matter of fact "Another World is Possible: is very vague slogan and has different meanings for different activists. For Susan George and all Statist reformists it means the revival of the welfare state of the post-war period. Their enemy is the neoliberal capitalism not capitalism in general. They want capitalism plus the post-war social contract between labor and capital mediated by the state. Against this reformist camp we have revolutionary trends who mean by another world a world free from capital. I myself belong to this second camp. We, the revolutionary camp suffer from lacking a vision on how this alternative world look like. Revolutionary Leninists, Maosts, and Trotskists have the old model of transitory period of dictatorship of proletariat leading to a stateless society. On the other hand we have many anarchist groups who have the practice of prefiguration, beautifully described in Marianne`s Michelbergs book the Will of Many. This practice which is ultimately reformist claim if we organize our political actions demcratically and horizontally, this will lead to an alternative society. I think we should combine good elements of these two revolutionary trend. Peer production prefigures the alternative to capitalism. Another world is the world of peer producer. Here, production is considered in the broadest sense. It is not only the production of goods and services but also of culture, meaning, life and social relation. But, we cannot establish a fully fledged peer to peer producing society without transforming strategic resources, i.e. the earth , the air, knowledge, and major technical infrastructure into commons that are available to the whole humanity. This is not possible without a social revolution that takes away these strategic resources from capitalists. So Anther world is possible if: We expropriate capitalists through a social revolution, and replace it by peer production, not in hundred years, but here and now. Now, western activists avoid the question of revolution and the overthrow of capitalism, therefore the slogan Another World is Possible has become a cliche. bets Jakob
"Laboratorio Eudemonia" <[email protected]> 08/11/13 4:18 PM >>>
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE! ----------------------------------- yes, of course, but why build it? For decades we hear people invoking something OTHER than the existing. First hoards of new parties alternated themselves, clearly without a progress. When the repulsion for parties became too strong, the political associations arrived to be electoral collectors. When also the disgust for the associations overflowed, came forward the social forums. What changed? Absolutely nothing. The same inspiring saying: "another world is possible" showed immediately the possibility, even the ease, of the change, but also their firm decision to leave the world as it is. The only thing that has always been pursued is a different DIVISION of the existing, not a real CHANGE of it. In that paradoxical way in which life expresses itself, when we meet guys who boast of being something, we can be sure that they are the exact opposite. Also in this case, who feels a strong desire for a world different from this, and wish approach who seems a friend and companion in this adventure, would discover that even the social forums are full of the usual STATE figures who quarrel with their antagonists PRIVATE to carve up the world. The ORIGINAL HUMAN BEING, not compromised by a conflict of interest, rather properly disgusted at the idea of an ECONOMIC STATUS that reduces him to a human subspecies, of a job that imprisons him for all his life preventing him from living a rich and varied reality, fed up of the eternal contrasts between the OWNERS of the STATE and the OWNERS of the PRIVATE, determined to build a world in which the STATE be shared among citizens and in which the PRIVATE cannot overdo thanks to a DEMOCRATIC STATE, it is yet to be discovered and developed. Yet only this NATURAL HUMAN BEING, able to maintain a detached inner core, his own objectivity avulsed from the FORCES of the lobbies of the STATE and of the PRIVATE, only who will have the courage to not make common cause and clique with others, who will not impose a group's will, who instead will lead a solitary political research, who will prioritize the POWER of TRUTH to the force of a majority addicted to any lie and omission, will enjoy the hope of making that world RIGHT, HONEST, TRUTHFUL capable of being EQUAL and FAIR. Whoever you are, let this be known. ANOTHER WORLD can not remain equal to this. ANOTHER WORLD can born only by informing the Earth's peoples that, once occurred the democracies, the primary collective resources of the public roles should have started to be all participated by TEMPORARY assignments. The hoarders that inherited them from previous regimes have instead taken advantage of the positions of power to keep the undue privileges of the tyrannical era. ANOTHER WORLD will be build only when the Public Jobs of the various Countries will be assigned at FIXED TIME in order to create that OPERATING DEMOCRACY able to allow to citizens to re-organize and conduct the public activities and services in the way they believe, day after day, more appropriate. In order to transform the present ROYAL PALACES of the PUBLIC CAREERISTS in a strong, fair and inclusive, basic economy. Able to compete with the private sector up to bring it back in perfect harmony with the needs of living beings and of Earth. Danilo D'Antonio Monti della Laga Central Italy tel. 393395014947 BUSCAR EL LEVANTE POR EL PONIENTE you can not tame the private without first democratize the State HARMONIC ROTATION SOCIAL http://www.hyperlinker.com/ars/ _______________________________________________ Networkedlabour mailing list [email protected] http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour _______________________________________________ Networkedlabour mailing list [email protected] http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- 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/