[P2P-F] Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Commons and cooperatives

[Michel Bauwens]

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Greig de Peuter and Nick Dyer-Witheford, “Commons and Cooperatives,”
Affinities:
A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action, Volume 4, Number 1,
Summer 2010, pp. 30-56.

In the last decade, the commons has become a prevalent theme in discussions
about collective but decentralized control over resources. This paper is a
preliminary exploration of the potential linkages between commons and
cooperatives through a discussion of the worker cooperative as one example
of a labour commons. We view the worker coop as a response at once
antagonistic and accommodative to capitalism. This perspective is amplified
through a consideration of five aspects of an ideal-type worker
cooperativism: associated labour, workplace democracy, surplus
distribution, cooperation among cooperatives, and, controversially, links
between worker cooperatives and socialist states. We conclude by suggesting
that the radical potential of worker cooperatives be extended,
theoretically and practically, by elaborating connections with other
commons struggles in a process we term the circulation of the common.
http://www.workerscontrol.net/system/files/docs/de%20peuter.pdf



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