<div dir="ltr">I'm copying in Bhushan Patil, who is part of such a community close to Pune in Maharashtra, India. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 12:45 AM Hari DK <<a href="mailto:hari.coding@gmail.com">hari.coding@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the original article by Ted Trainer...</div><div><br></div><div>I'd love to live in one of those eco-communes with the happy backyard chickens and 2 days of work.. :)</div><div><br></div><div>always more questions :P<br></div><div></div><div><br></div><div>-would the process of creating communes scale quickly enough (via good examples and prefiguration) to mitigate the climate crisis? or is that a secondary objective?</div><div><br></div><div>-if the communes don't scale fast enough to avert the climate crisis, then wouldn't we necessarily need to solve within the system of consumer capitalism (through climate-tech innovation, initiatives like <a href="https://www.cdp.net/en" target="_blank">CDP</a> etc). <br></div><div><br></div><div>-is this a model only for the rich countries? what's happening in the poor ones?</div><div><br></div><div>-I'm very interested in how the devolution of consumer capitalist value chains might occur to the local business models.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 22:55, David Barkin <<a href="mailto:dpbarkin@gmail.com" target="_blank">dpbarkin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Abrazos and Saludos from Mexico ---</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:46 AM mp <<a href="mailto:mp@aktivix.org" target="_blank">mp@aktivix.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
...the state we're in..<br>
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On 29/09/2021 16:22, Hari DK wrote:<br>
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> -Also, as hinted in some of the comments by others - how is this future<br>
> achieved? is it an organic emergent? or is it top down? capitalism in its<br>
> original form is arguably an organic emergent of human settlement (farming<br>
> societies stored seeds for the next harvest. of course I am not talking<br>
> about degenerate, technologically amplified capitalism we might find<br>
> ourselves trapped in.)<br>
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In a sense I guess everything is arguably emergent - but I'd prefer to<br>
look at the world differently here:<br>
<br>
And say: It was always imposed, always an elite construction from the<br>
top down and little has changed in basic terms the last 6000 years:<br>
still turning on grains/ploughing, slaves, taxation, debt and<br>
extraction. See for instance James Scott's<br>
<br>
<a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-abstract/27/1/111/168419/Against-the-Grain-A-Deep-History-of-the-Earliest" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-abstract/27/1/111/168419/Against-the-Grain-A-Deep-History-of-the-Earliest</a><br>
<br>
In that light "Capitalism" is simply a reimposition, a re-application of<br>
same old tested and tried model of civilisation -- which collapses on<br>
average after 250 years when the soil is depleted - see David Montgomery:<br>
<br>
The original study: "Dirt: The Erosion of<br>
Civilizations"<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587916.Dirt" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587916.Dirt</a><br>
<br>
Or the more interesting, constructive, later response (with a summary of<br>
Dirt):<br>
<br>
"Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life" /<br>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36236132-growing-a-revolution" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36236132-growing-a-revolution</a><br>
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