"Are we moving #beyondcapitalism? If so, what alternatives are we moving towards and how will they be implemented?

Blaq Swans, a group that tracks and analyzes improbable events that shake the prevailing system, adapted the #CollaborativeEconomy Honeycomb to help the #P2PFoundation begin to answer these questions. The diagrams and full article can be found on the P2P Foundation’s site #CommonsTransition.
#PostCapitalism
https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/mapping-the-emerging-post-capitalist-paradigm-and-its-main-thinkers/

From #MarkFisher: "Desejo #PósCapitalista"
"Are we moving #beyondcapitalism? If so, what alternatives are we moving towards and how will they be implemented?
#BlaqSwans, a group that tracks and analyzes improbable events that shake the prevailing system, adapted the Collaborative Economy Honeycomb to help the #P2PFoundation begin to answer these questions. The diagrams and full article can be found on the P2P Foundation’s site #CommonsTransition."
https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/mapping-the-emerging-post-capitalist-paradigm-and-its-main-thinkers/

🌍 Commons, Not Conglomerates
Taxation can guide, not punish. Steuern steuern.

🏢 Proprietary IP → high tax
🧩 Permissive FLOSS → moderate tax
🔄 Copyleft/commons → near-zero tax + public support

And when you share while alive, society buys your freedom — castles, cars, and all.

This is the give economy.
Not charity. Incentivized solidarity.

🔗 Read the full post: https://eduzen.bearblog.dev/commons-not-conglomerates-variable-taxation-as-a-guide-toward-communal-stewardship/

#GiveEconomy #CommonsTransition #Copyleft #PostGrowth #FLOSS #RightToRepair

🌍 Commons, Not Conglomerates:  Variable Taxation as a Guide Toward Communal Stewardship

In a post-growth economy, we don’t abolish value — we redirect it. And one of the most powerful tools to do that is already in our hands: taxation. Not a...

educationZEN

🚜 What if the Unimog had stayed in the commons?
Born post-WWII to serve many, built to last, the Unimog met global demand — and then its creators went bankrupt. Not from failure, but from success.

They sold to Daimler. The rest is planned obsolescence.

What if they had released the IP instead?

🔗 https://eduzen.bearblog.dev/the-unimog-that-could-have-been-a-post-growth-parable/

#PostGrowth #OpenSourceHardware #Commons #SustainableDesign #Degrowth #CircularEconomy #TechHistory #CommonsTransition

🚜 The Unimog That Could Have Been: A Post-Growth Parable

In the shadows of World War II, when Europe was rebuilding itself from the ashes, a curious machine was born — one that seemed to embody resilience, versatil...

educationZEN

I have a proposal for a Europe-wide* experiment, that aims to bring together the movements around solidarity and ecology in order to build up our material infrastructure.

**I'm looking for collaborators**, please DM me, and please boost this toot!

Here it is briefly:

We try to raise 50 000 000€ over about 5-10 years and give that money as 1000 gifts of 50k€ each to new collectives for setting up housing cooperatives and land communes. The main vehicle for the fundraiser would be crowdfunding with focus on a high volume of small, recurring donations.

For example, this could be achieved with 200 000 donors, donating 5€/month on average for 50 months, or 4,17 years. That's 250€/person over four years.

Each recipient collective would make a legal pact with us or a trusted third party to ensure that the property will not be sold back to the market for financial gain. Additionally collectives would go through screening to ensure alignment with a shared vision.

*Even though internationalism on a global scale is important, I believe it makes sense to focus this effort geographically, to be able to have location-connected synergies between collectives.

In the end we would have boosted the 'ecosystem' with a network of maybe 10-30k members and created 1000 hubs for social and ecological organizing. Additionally, we would have built up a network of Commons, that can help us gain a better understanding of this new, old, paradigm.

The leftist space is full of ideas and people with motivation to work and organize together, to try new forms of living and care, to grow food and to steward the land. I want to see this potential realized, but I'm afraid most of it will not happen unless we cooperate on a broader, international scale to push things forward. I think what is needed is funding campaign that also spreads the concept.

#commons #commonstransition #transitiontown #solidarität #solidarity #solidarite #solidarityeconomy #coop #cooperative #cooperatif #deepadaptation #solarpunk #syndikat #mietshäusersyndikat #squat #intentionalcommunity #conviviality #buenvivir #agroecology #commune #clt #dualpower #prefigurative #ecosocialism #commons #commonstransition #transitiontown #solidarität #solidarity #solidarite #solidarityeconomy #coop #cooperative #cooperatif #deepadaptation #solarpunk #syndikat #mietshäusersyndikat #squat #intentionalcommunity #conviviality #buenvivir #agroecology #commune #clt #dualpower #prefigurative #ecosocialism

I have a proposal for a Europe-wide* experiment, that aims to bring together the movements around solidarity and ecology in order to build up the material infrastructure.

I'm looking for collaborators.

Here it is briefly:

We try to raise 50 000 000€ over about 5-10 years and give that money as 1000 gifts of 50k€ each to new collectives for setting up housing cooperatives and land communes. The main vehicle for the fundraiser would be crowdfunding with focus on a high volume of small, recurring donations.

For example, this could be achieved with 200 000 donors, donating 5€/month on average for 50 months, or 4,17 years. That's 250€/person over four years.

Each recipient collective would make a legal pact with us or a trusted third party to ensure that the property will not be sold back to the market for financial gain. Additionally collectives would go through screening to ensure alignment with a shared vision.

*Even though internationalism on a global scale is important, I believe it makes sense to focus this effort geographically, to be able to have location-connected synergies between collectives.

In the end we would have strengthened the 'ecosystem' with a network of maybe 10-30k members and created 1000 foci for social and ecological organizing. Additionally, we would have built up a network of Commons, that can help us gain a better understanding of this new, old, paradigm.

The leftist space is full of ideas and people with motivation to work and organize together, to try new forms of living and care, to grow food and to steward the land. I want to see this potential realized, but I'm afraid most of it will not happen unless we cooperate on a broader, international scale to push things forward.
#commons #commonstransition #transitiontown #solidarität #solidarity #solidarite #solidarityeconomy #coop #cooperative #cooperatif #deepadaptation #solarpunk #syndikat #mietshäusersyndikat #squat #intentionalcommunity #conviviality #buenvivir #agroecology #commune #clt #dualpower #prefigurative #ecosocialism
Autogestió: adventures into the new economies of Catalonia

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Commons in the time of monsters: How P2P Politics can change the world, one city at a time - Commons Transition

Can Commons and P2P practices offer viable solutions for our present and future social, political and ecological crises? This is the story of how it's done.

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@bhaugen yeah, I remember that from when I brought up federated social networks on the #CommonsTransition group on #Loomio ;-) I can see the value of a group like #P2PF having a token "presence" there, to make them discoverable from those outside the choir. But it seems odd to hold their main forum discussions in a FB group, instead of on Loomio or some self-hosted forum system.
@ebel

I'm helping to run a #P2PFoundation / #CommonsTransition meet-up group here in #Edinburgh.

Details here:
https://www.loomio.org/g/jcl4X71T/p2p-scotland

P2P Scotland

A regional group for people interested in the P2P Foundation, and "transitioning to a commons-based peer-to-peer society". For more background see: http://p2pfoundation.net https://commonstransition.org/ There is also a global Commons Transition Loomio group (https://www.loomio.org/g/0j1eUbJm). Some starting points: - Commons Transition Primer, Short articles (https://primer.commonstransition.org/1-short-articles) - An introduction to basic P2P ideas (https://primer.commonstransition.org/4-more/an-introduction-to-basic-p2p-ideas) (an alternative link (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC50EXeB57LIE3TJT3nH0GNw) to the videos) - An interview with Michel Bauwens (https://commonstransition.org/how-peer-to-peer-will-change-the-world-an-interview-with-michel-bauwens/) (that's also been 404ing, here's an alternative link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSP0TDYQvcs))