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

Fri Jan 26 20:38:32 CET 2018

Thanks, Michel!

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 6:26 AM, Michel Bauwens
<michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> * Report: Libertarian Municipalism: Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms
> for Post-Capitalist Transition. By Kevin Carson, C4SS (Center for a
> Stateless Society), 2017
>
> URL = https://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/community-platforms.pdf
>
> Description[edit]
>
> "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."
>
>
> Excerpt[edit]
>
> 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."
>
> --
> Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org
>
> P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net  - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net
>
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>
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