[P2P-F] thanks for diffusing: Re-imagining the left through an ecology of the commons:

[Michel Bauwens]

 .... towards a post-capitalist commons transition

dear everyone,

would be great if you can make a special effort to diffuse this latest
essay,

this is our attempt (with Jose Ramos) to dialogue with progressive forces
about the importance of integrating the commons in political strategy, and
how:

"Our main hypothesis in this paper is that in the current conjuncture, we
are moving towards a ‘dominance’ of a ‘commons’ format for societal
development. The commons format assumes a ‘third’ mode of development that
indicates civil society and community as critical initiators and guardians
of common value. The emerging commons model should be distinguished from
both the regulation of capitalism by social-democracy, and state-centric
Soviet types of socialism. Just as a full-fledged capitalist system could
be seen as starting with the seed forms developed in the medieval
city-states, so a future commons-centric society can be hypothesized from
currently emerging commons-based seed forms. We believe that just as the
revolutions bringing full-fledged capitalism were preceded by the
development of capitalists and their seed forms, so a commons-based
systemic change is necessarily the result of commoners developing their own
seed forms. Therefore, the creation of a systemic ecology of the commons
becomes an essential strategy for social change. The key approach for
emancipation is no longer a redistribution of market value, or a
state-centric appropriation of productive assets, but an interweaving of
commons-based production and redistribution."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23269995.2018.1461442


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