<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>This is a really brilliant overview of commons urbanism , with real production, trends by Kevin Carson,</div><div><br></div><div>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,</div><div><br></div><div>really a must read</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><h1 id="gmail-firstHeading" class="gmail-firstHeading" lang="en" style="color:black;background:none;font-weight:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:visible;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-size:1.8em;line-height:1.3;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,serif">Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition</h1><div id="gmail-bodyContent" class="gmail-mw-body-content" style="line-height:1.6;font-size:0.875em;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><div id="gmail-contentSub" style="font-size:11.76px;line-height:1.2em;margin:0px 0px 1.4em 1em;color:rgb(84,84,84);width:auto"></div><div id="gmail-jump-to-nav" class="gmail-mw-jump" style="overflow:hidden;height:0px;zoom:1;margin-bottom:1.4em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Networked_Cities_as_Resilient_Platforms_for_Post-Capitalist_Transition#mw-head" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"></a><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Networked_Cities_as_Resilient_Platforms_for_Post-Capitalist_Transition#p-search" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"></a></div><div id="gmail-mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="gmail-mw-content-ltr" style="direction:ltr"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><b>* Report: Libertarian Municipalism: Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition. By Kevin Carson, C4SS (Center for a Stateless Society), 2017</b></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">URL = <a class="external gmail-free" href="https://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/community-platforms.pdf" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background:url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") 100% 50% no-repeat;padding-right:16px">https://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/community-platforms.pdf</a></p><h1 style="color:black;background:none;font-weight:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-size:1.8em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,serif;line-height:1.3"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-Description">Description</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Networked_Cities_as_Resilient_Platforms_for_Post-Capitalist_Transition&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: Description" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h1><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">"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.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">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.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">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.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">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.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><b>In this paper, we will examine the emerging distributed and commons-based economy, as a base for</b> 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<b>."</b></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><br></p><h1 style="color:black;background:none;font-weight:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-size:1.8em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,serif;line-height:1.3"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-Excerpt">Excerpt</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Networked_Cities_as_Resilient_Platforms_for_Post-Capitalist_Transition&action=edit§ion=2" title="Edit section: Excerpt" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h1><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">Kevin Carson:</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">"In particular, it is to a large extent a transition to a post-capitalist society centered on the commons.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">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.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">Cosmo-local (DGML = Design Local, Manufacture Local) production is governed by the following principles:</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">• 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."</p></div></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: <a href="http://commonstransition.org" target="_blank">http://commonstransition.org</a> </div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/</a> <br></div></div></div></div>
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