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Framing "political action" as primarily state action, rather than a component of the new counter-institutions the kind of false dichotomy we need to avoid.
Pixelache Helsinki wants to bring key members of ZEMOS98 collective to the 2016 edition of their festival, under the campaign title 'CopyLove Helsinki'
David Bollier's presentation to the Agence Française de Développement in Paris outlining the commons as an alternative vision of "development."
Murray Bookchin's 'The Next Revolution' offers a bold political vision that can move us from protest to social transformation.
The cultural industries have proven to be surprisingly creative in the strategies they employ to combat piracy substantiated by the documents in this book.
As citizens, we have to decide where we stand: with the old system that's dying, or for a new system that we [ourselves] have to birth?
The rise of the social economy today is in part, a self-defense against the new enclosures.
A review of the workplace battleground and explore the potential of social media for mobilizing social movements in labor conflicts and beyond
Michel Bauwens (Madison, Wisconsin), June 12, 2016: Part One – Analyzing the global situation One of the best books I have read in the last ten years is undoubtedly, The Structure of World History, by Kojin Karatini.
This is the first of three videos that will tackle an investigation of the gender wage gap going beyond popular rhetoric and analysing its underlying causes
Andrew Stewart interviews Kevin Carson on the issue of corporate water privatization and cooperative ownership, commons-based alternatives.
A series of proposals and more than 120 policy recommendations for governments, ending in a joint statement of public policies for the collaborative economy
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The solution now is to go back to the cooperativist tradition as an alternative to the corporate sharing economy.
Michel Bauwens: A note on the post-capitalist strategy of the P2P Foundation How to create a Post-Capitalist strategy? As expressed in our previous posts — where we describe the work of Kojin Karatani— we agree that the present system is based on a trinity of capital-state-nation, and that this reflects the integration of three modes... Continue reading →
Intervention in an important debate on what is value in the context of peer production. Rigi and Prey argue that the labor theory of value is still operable, contra Fuchs and Negri. * Article: Value, Rent, and The Political Economy of Social Media. Jakob Rigi and Robert Prey. The Information Society 2015, October, Issue 5.... Continue reading →
The real strength of today’s protest movements is not conflict, but a reclaimed solidarity and newly rebuilt sense of community.
Perhaps the simplest lesson is that even decentralized networks need, and have, governments. Every network is a state. Every state has a government.
I have a strong feeling that certain headlines and assertions about the Brexit result are if not factually wrong, at least very misleading.
The Care-Centered Economy suggests how the idea of “care” could be used to imagine new structural terms for the entire economy.
Can the factors creating a slower growth world find open discussion in time to avoid severe social strife and an Age of Stagnation
Sociologist Erik Olin Wright explains why a basic income would not be a “disincentive” to work (unlike means-tested anti-poverty programs).
The General Political License would allow policy makers to have the support of commons and commoners, subject to clear conditions of reciprocity.
Video exploring the topic of Open Source Circular Economy
It's indeed a remarkable synthesis of where the P2P movement is at, and how it is both grappling with the tensions in the world and within the movements.
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