<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">The Next System Project</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nextsystem@democracycollaborative.org">nextsystem@democracycollaborative.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 6:01 PM<br>Subject: The Seeds of Socialism In Your Home Town<br>To: <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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Research Director Thomas Hanna's latest essay in <em>Jacobin</em> declares that "there’s more of a basis for constructing socialism in the US than one might suspect." Public ownership is far more prevalent than most people realize, and Hanna—<a href="https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=c489df81dd&e=8155f3738d" style="color:#559f9f;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">drawing from his newly released book, <em>Our Common Wealth</em></a>—explains why creating more of these institutions and making them more democratic is a prerequisite for building a more democratic and socially just society.
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</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="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></div>