[PeDAGoG] [REDlistserve] A new article on the RED website - "The path to a just and sustainable society"

[David Barkin]

Some time ago I argued on this RED Listserve that there are hundreds of
communities already involved in constructing their own societies on the
margins of the capitalist states of which they are a part.  (I enclose a
published version of that contribution for those who dont recall our
shorter piece, so nicely mentored by Dev) These groups are forming
alliances and networks on a global scale (I.e., consider the example of the
Territories of Life consortium whose participating members occupy as much
as one-quarter of the planet's land area; or the efforts of the Global
Tapestry of Alternatives, whose origins are in India, but now extend widely
across the globe). Most of these groups are explicitly confronting
inherited challenges, such as women's participation and significance in
governance and socio-cultural definition, as well as the need to reshape
their food and production systems while caring for their natural
environments, while assuming control of their territories.

Here in Mexico, of course, is the iconic example of the Zapatistas, whose
ranks now number perhaps one-half million people from several different
ethnic groups of Mayan origin.  Their present foray into Europe to explore
the paths to constructing international solidarity is a notable complement
to the work that they are doing within Mexico with their allies in the
National Indigeous Congress, with its 25 million members. Other sizable
groups with less international visibility include the Tosepan Cooperative
founded in 1977 and with almost 200,000 members at present. Resistance
struggles against capitalist mega projects are also mobilizing uncounted
numbers of communities who are now realizing the importance of moving
beyond protest to forge their own models of societies  moving forward.

Abrazos and Saludos from Mexico ---


On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:46 AM mp <mp at aktivix.org> wrote:

>
> ...the state we're in..
>
> On 29/09/2021 16:22, Hari DK wrote:
>
> > -Also, as hinted in some of the comments by others - how is this future
> > achieved? is it an organic emergent? or is it top down? capitalism in its
> > original form is arguably an organic emergent of human settlement
> (farming
> > societies stored seeds for the next harvest. of course I am not talking
> > about degenerate, technologically amplified capitalism we might find
> > ourselves trapped in.)
>
> In a sense I guess everything is arguably emergent - but I'd prefer to
> look at the world differently here:
>
> And say: It was always imposed, always an elite construction from the
> top down and little has changed in basic terms the last 6000 years:
> still turning on grains/ploughing, slaves, taxation, debt and
> extraction. See for instance James Scott's
>
>
> https://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-abstract/27/1/111/168419/Against-the-Grain-A-Deep-History-of-the-Earliest
>
> In that light "Capitalism" is simply a reimposition, a re-application of
> same old tested and tried model of civilisation -- which collapses on
> average after 250 years when the soil is depleted - see David Montgomery:
>
> The original study: "Dirt: The Erosion of
> Civilizations"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587916.Dirt
>
> Or the more interesting, constructive, later response (with a summary of
> Dirt):
>
> "Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life" /
> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36236132-growing-a-revolution
>
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-- 
David Barkin
Mexico
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