[P2P-F] Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition

Fri Jan 26 13:26:30 CET 2018

This is a really brilliant overview of commons urbanism , with real
production,  trends by Kevin Carson,

you  in cc are all liberally cited, as is my own work and I very much like
the way Kevin Carson uses the partner state to bridge it with the  more
libertarian vision of associationism or federative governance,

really a must read

Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition
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** Report: Libertarian Municipalism: Networked Cities as Resilient
Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition. By Kevin Carson, C4SS (Center for
a Stateless Society), 2017*

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"Peak Oil (and other fossil fuels) is creating pressure to shorten global
supply and distribution chains. At the same time, the shift in advantage
from military technologies for power projection to technologies for area
denial means that the imperial costs of enforcing a globalized economic
system of outsourced production under the legal control of Western capital
are becoming prohibitive.

The same technological trends that are reducing the total need for labor
also, in many cases, make direct production for use in the informal, social
and household economies much more economically feasible. Cheap open-source
CNC machine tools, networked information and digital platforms,
Permaculture and community gardens, alternative currencies and mutual
credit systems, all reduce the scale of feasible production for many goods
to the household, multiple household and neighborhood levels, and similarly
reduce the capital outlays required for directly producing consumption
needs to a scale within the means of such groupings.

Put all these trends together, and we see the old model of secure
livelihood through wages collapsing at the same time new technology is
destroying the material basis for dependence on corporations and the state.

But like all transitions, this is a transition not only from something, but
to something. That something bears a more than passing resemblance to the
libertarian communist future Pyotr Kropotkin described in The Conquest of
Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops: the relocalization of most
economic functions into mixed agricultural/industrial villages, the control
of production by those directly engaged in it, and a fading of the
differences between town and country, work and leisure, and brain-work and
muscle-work.

*In this paper, we will examine the emerging distributed and commons-based
economy, as a base for* post-capitalist transition, at three levels: the
micro-village and other forms of cohousing/co-production, the city or town
as a unit, and regional and global federations of cities*."*

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Kevin Carson:

"In particular, it is to a large extent a transition to a post-capitalist
society centered on the commons.

As Michel Bauwens puts it, the commons paradigm replaces the traditional
Social Democratic paradigm in which value is created in the “private” (i.e.
corporate) sector through commodity labor, and a portion of this value is
redistributed by the state and by labor unions, to one in which value is
cocreated within the social commons outside the framework of wage labor and
the cash nexus, and the process of value creation is governed by the
co-creators themselves. Because of the technological changes entailed in
what Bauwens calls “cosmo-local” production (physical production that's
primarily local, using relatively small-scale facilities, for local
consumption, but using a global information commons freely available to all
localities), the primary level of organization of this commons-based
society will be local.

Cosmo-local (DGML = Design Local, Manufacture Local) production is governed
by the following principles:

• Protocol cooperativism: the underlying immaterial and algorithmic
protocols are shared and open source, using copyfair principles (free
sharing of knowledge, but commercialization conditioned by reciprocity) •
Open cooperativism: the commons-based coops are distinguished from
‘collective capitalism’ by their commitment to creating and expanding
common goods for the whole of society; in Platform coops it is the
platforms themselves that are the commons, needed to enable and manage the
exchanges that may be needed, while protecting it from capture by
extractive netarchical platforms • Open and contributive accounting: fair
distribution mechanisms that recognize all contributions • Open and shared
supply chains for mutual coordination • Non-dominium forms of ownership
(the means of production are held in common for the benefit of all
participants in the eco-system."
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Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org

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