Orsan:Both Anna's statement and your response seem to me to rather declare principles than to deal with process. In so far as we are concerned with the prefigurative, process is as relevant as goal. Well, obviously, since it is supposed to prefigure the latter.Let us consider the WSF. This cannot realistically be simply presented as a global open space, even if it is a space (or recurring moment, actually) which is more open than that of some Real International 6th to Infinity Revolutionary International.
It is funded, directly or indirectly, by states, state-funded development agencies and capitalist foundations (tho Ford withdrew some time ago). It could certainly be considered one of John Holloway's 'cracks', or spaces in which emancipatory things can be said and done. But if the funders pull out the plug or plugs, then one (this one anyway) has to assume the decline, if not the fall, of the WSF.
The Zapatistas and Rojava exist in, or create, other such cracks. But they do not exist free of the 'austeritarian' capitalist and aggressive stateist conditions that surround them.All of which probably brings us back to the paper you provided us with earlier today, concerning the commons and the state.Best,P--On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Orsan Senalp <orsan1234@gmail.com> wrote:replied below;Excerpt: This is a society centred on a conscious exchange of activity for communal needs and communal purposes. It is a society of new, rich human beings who develop in the course of producing with others and for others; these are people for whom the desire to possess and the associated need for money (the real need that capitalism produces, Marx noted) wither away. We are describing a new world in which we have our individual needs, needs for our own “all-round development,” but where we are not driven by material incentives to act. It is a world in which our activity is its own reward (and is, indeed, “life’s prime want”) because we affirm ourselves as conscious social beings through that activity, a world in which we produce use-values for others and produce ourselves as part of the human family.How is this accomplished?Syriza, Podemos, progressive local governments and civil forces as well as creative and productive communities need to join in constructing and building up commons productive, reproductive cultural and political transformatory spaces. Using local, national, regional, and global open spaces like WSF, commons events, mobilizations, connecting them directly to those who are perishing by crises, imperialist wars, and environmental catastrophes. Existing tools needs to be tried to get integrated in a mutually cooperative fashion through those spaces and mobilizations to each other. Decision making, communicator and practical solidarity mechanisms needs to be interconnected with conscious and pure efforts for the good of all. It is not at all difficult if perspective and collaborative learning and making processes and tools discussed and collectively organized all together, with all parties involved listening and positive towards each others, ready to change self and willing to help others. Core understanding and expectations of all parties needs to be open and shared, recognized mutually.So a time table, list of list and tools, map of maps of struggle can be brought to gather and peers would be put in touch with each other towards harmonizing efforts and contributions.Open value chain networks, wiki wikis, and meta document tools are crucial as well as real world gatherings, classes, circles linked to solidarity economies, open worker cooperatives.This is only a very small piece of thought but I believe important to starting from.OrsanRecent publications
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