I started my journey to the commons in large part through the reading of the school of cognitive capitalism, starting with Empire of Negri/Hardt, then moving on the vercellone/fumagalli/mazzarato and the first 25 issues of Multitudes magazine.

I've always was weary thought that speaking of the common, instead of the commons, made it into a more metaphysical approach, loosing its concreteness,

but with this article here, https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Common_as_a_Mode_of_Production, I'm rediscovering that this post-autonomist tendency has clarified a lot of the issues, and so if you want to read how the common can productively lead to the commons, this is a very good start.

a good and just a bit longer follow-up, is http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276415597770

see also this very cogent attitude to the  basic income: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Andrea_Fumagalli_on_the_Five_Criteria_To_Distinguish_a_Progressive_Interpretation_of_the_Basic_Income
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