[P2P-F] Reflections on Trump, and the role of the commons as an alternative

[Michel Bauwens]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:36 AM, George Pór <george.por at gmail.com> wrote:

> Democractic Socialists of America, whose website says:
>
> • We need to organize and protect certain parts of the natural, social,
> and political *commons*. Community-based trusts and co- operative
> ventures need to be bolstered by fiscal, tax, and financial policies that
> balance or eliminate the deeply embedded advantages collectively known as
> “corporate welfare.” We also must curb monopoly patents on property related
> to public health and products developed with research funded at least in
> part by taxpayers.
> http://www.dsausa.org/toward_an_economic_justice_agenda
>
> • For the future of our planet, we must struggle to end corporate
> exploitation of our natural resources and fight for innovative economic
> relationships that protect the *commons*.
> http://www.dsausa.org/convention_speakers_and_programming
>
> The great systems that sustain life on Earth— the atmosphere, oceans,
> lakes, rivers and groundwater, soils and natural ecosystems—must be
> recognized as *commons* belonging to everyone and managed democratically.
> Left to the logic of the private market, they will be exploited to
> extinction. Our posterity will inherit a healthy planet only if we end the
> profit-driven throwaway corporate economy and replace it with a production
> system designed for systematic reuse and recycling of materials.
> http://www.dsausa.org/deconstructing_obama_s_climate_message
>
> • We have shot ourselves in the foot, by listening to 33 years of failed
> Reaganomics, and by buying into the idea that education should be a
> commodity and something that banksters can get rich off of, and not part of
> the *commons*. It's time we own up to our mistakes, and start calling
> America's student loan debt crisis what it really is: A massive,
> devastating, trillion-dollar morally criminal conspiracy, committed by Wall
> Street banksters, libertarian billionaires and Reaganomics devotees.
> http://www.dsausa.org/students_now_indentured_to_the_banksters
>
>
hi george, it's great to see how the concept of the commons is moving, even
in the American heartland,

yesterday, I got an email from a new progressive coalition in Italy, who
said these ideas were at the core of their approach for the future,

this is the kind of stuff a newsletter on the political commons should
follow,

Michel


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