[P2P-F] HOW DO WE ACHIEVE COMMONS-ORIENTED PHASE TRANSITION ?

[Michel Bauwens]

HOW DO WE ACHIEVE COMMONS-ORIENTED PHASE TRANSITION ?

thanks for reading this:

today we have a paradox, the more communistic the sharing license we use,
the more capitalistic the practice, with the Linux commons becoming a
corporate commons enriching IBM and the like ... it works in a certain way,
and seems acceptable to most free software developers, but is it the only
way.

Hence, an alternative, having the choice not just for non-reciprocal
communist licenses such as the GPL, but introducing a median choice of
socialist licenses, based on reciprocity.

This is the choice of
http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fp2pfoundation.net%2FPeer_Production_License&h=1AQGOu0GL&enc=AZPXQutseGhZBABdiiL_fzEqZyd8sYkiqOs7H1T5nS52n1xRgyn_H4U4bomFXAAFTdHgJNnZRiHEgmeO_vSLFweSiDgTpF34uco-4NneeLJafsh22SwQPfmdEwfgr0_uF1y5eUiSdjhFCbA_VAZmx07E&s=1>;
it is not to be confused with the cc non commercial, as the logic is
different; this is not to offer protection to individuals reluctant to
share, but to enable and empower a counter-hegemonic reciprocal economy
that combines commons that are open to all that contribute, while charging
a license fee for the the forprofit companies who want to use without
contributing. The PPL was originally designed by 'venture communist' dmytri
kleiner and you can find it discussed at
http://p2pfoundation.net/Bauwens,_Kleiner,_Restakis_on_Cooperative,_Commons-Based_Venture_Funding<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fp2pfoundation.net%2FBauwens%2C_Kleiner%2C_Restakis_on_Cooperative%2C_Commons-Based_Venture_Funding&h=HAQGzU4_p&enc=AZO3pDEigJrDGTt8c718vfduoK2paDfCVfPHKvv49co6hnkdQ3ZdbSF3GZs-KE8RBU2QgdonMyu4FVm-PldnYimOOMlUcxKneKhHu9fRcjzk_Ks3rDm5z-U2GBB-HR0mFs3svE4SYdJMzokFgeYVqFzx&s=1>
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ltranscript now available)

The PPL is used experimentally by Guerilla Translations! and perhaps a few
others. It links the commons to a enterpreneurial coalition of ethical
market entitities (coops and other models) and keeps the surplus value
entirely within the sphere of commoners/cooperators instead of leaking out
to the multinations.

As this is the key contradiction of the liberal licenses (though they use
the communist logic of from each according to their free contributions, to
all according to need) which subsume free software to for-profit dynamics,
i.e. that the only way to sustain livelyhoods, remains the selling of
labour for capital accumulation; the PPL changes this, as it allows
commoners to create their own market entities, keeping the surplus value
into the commons sphere, thereby allowing a proto-mode of production (peer
production) to become a fully autonomous mode of commons oriented peer
production. It creates a counter-economy that can be the basis for
reconstituting a 'counter-hegemony' with a for-benefit circulation of
value, which allied to pro-commons social movements, could be the basis of
the political and social transformation of the political economy.

Moreover, inside the ethical economy, the application of open book
accounting and open supply chains, would allow a different value
circulation, whereby the stigmergic mutual coordinationt that already works
at scale for immaterial cooperation and production, would move to the
coordination of physical production, creating post-market dynamics of
allocation in the physical sphere.

Finally, this can be strengthened by creating commoms-based venture
funding, so as to create material commons, as proposed by Dmytri Kleiner.
In this way, the machine park itself is taken out of the sphere of capital
accumulation.

Hence, as this process strengthens, and is accompanied by the growth of
social and political power, the circulation of capital is replaced by a
full circulation of the commons. The phase transition has effectively
occured.
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