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<div class="gmail-" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:inherit">.... </span></span><font color="#1d2129" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">towards a post-capitalist commons transition</span></font></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">dear everyone,</span></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">would be great if you can make a special effort to diffuse this latest essay,</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">this is our attempt (with </span></span><span start="26" class="gmail-_247o" style="background-color:rgb(220,230,248);font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Jose Ramos</span></span></span><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">) to dialogue with progressive forces about the importance of integrating the commons in political strategy, and how:</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">"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."</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left;font-family:inherit"><span style="f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