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#OMN (Open Media Network)The commons were never theory – It was always practice
Let's be clear about something, the commons are not an academic concept waiting to be discovered by economists or policy wonks, not a diagram in a textbook, not something that needs a queen, a government, or a management consultant to bring into existence. The commons are what people have always done when they are left alone to organise their own survival with neighbours they trust. Peasants managing grazing land across medieval Europe. Indigenous communities stewarding water, forest and […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-commons-were-never-a-theory-it-was-always-practice/
Thatcher, Reagan were the wrecking crew: How we keep pushing mess
This story is about the ideology that won. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, two politicians on either side of the Atlantic didn’t only win elections, they reshaped what people came to accept as “common sense.” Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United States did not invent capitalism’s worst tendencies, but they gave them state power, institutional infrastructure, and ideological legitimacy. What they built was not simply a set of policies, it was a social […]https://hamishcampbell.com/thatcher-reagan-were-the-wrecking-crew-how-we-pushed-the-current-mess/
macchinaL’archiv((i))o di Indymedia Italia
Alcune storie possono essere raccontate, più o meno fedelmente, ma la memoria può giocare brutti scherzi. Nel caso di Indymedia Italia, è invece possibile, se pure con alcuni limiti, verificare direttamente – anche a distanza di 20 e più anni – i contenuti di un sito attivo dal 2001 al 2006, quando sospese la sua attività a favore di altri siti, locali e regionali, fino alla progressiva chiusura.
Quella che trovate qui è una copia di archivio realizzata da noi nel 2021 in occasione del ventennale di Genova G8, quando fu allestita una installazione temporanea del sito.
https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/05/10048
"In ogni caso, nessun backup"
indymedia.ptApoiantes do Climáximo redistribuem bens essenciais tirados do Continente “Eles comem tudo e não deixam nada”
"Uma dezena de apoiantes do Climáximo entraram no Continente do Campo Pequeno e coletaram bens alimentares e de higiene pessoal saindo sem pagar e distribuindo estes bens numa banca junto à Estação de Oriente como forma de protesto contra os lucros das grandes superfícies em contexto de guerra fóssil, e como alerta sobre o impacto da crise climática nos sistemas alimentares. Os bens foram redistribuídos porque "ninguém devia ter que pagar para comer enquanto os ricos lucram como […]
Γιανίρης1 Is power and wealth part of the same object in measureing class?
2 Is industrial development environmentally sustainable?
3 Is the complex of the national/ethnic/local capital and state permanently dead or is it expected to resurrect itself?
4 Is worker oppression and exploitation visible when class is defined as it was in 19th century, or has management become capitalists by proxy?
5 Is the urban half of humanity conscious of the necessary exploitation and oppression of the other half? And how different have the mechanisms of control of both become?
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Pro-Capitalists (including their serving tail of social reformers and disillusioned liberals ) believe that #NeoLiberalism is some form of ideology, people adopt those ideals and conduct politics accordingly.
Mainstream Marxists, clinging to their form of orthodoxy as it is the last raft they can float on, dismiss that there is such thing as NeoLiberalism
The few of those that try to pseudo-theorize about neoliberalism as an econ/polit. ideology and influence in politics, fail both in truly explaining historical events and convince the remaining Marxist community of the validity of their theorizing (branded charlatans and excommunicated)
Still there is a pattern described by events, the rhetoric of those who advocate of neoliberalism, some pseudo-theorists/philosophers who are portrayed my dominant culture as "fathers" of the doctrine, that as a sum is branded neoliberalism.
Just like capitalism, what is referred to as neoliberalism, comes to describe action, political, economic, social, organizational, after it materializes. Not the other way around. Fools think the idea was there, someone got convinced and practiced what the idea was about.
Since apart of Marxism we have no other theoretical/scientific tool to explain capitalism, either we have to lie about reality and deny it to defend theory, or we are failing to apply the correct theory appropriately to explain reality. The quick fact is the two don't exactly blend together and it has become more and more evident they don't.
The third possibility is there are certain faults, or extensions needed in current theory to explain the transition of the classical modern state (pre 1930s) and the later modern capitalist state (post 1940s) .. as the late rebound lead by the US as attempting to revert the transition referred to as neoliberalism.
Skipping back to the last known water-tight floating compartment we have, dialectical-materialism/science, we must re-examine where theory fails, what revision and extension it needs. But who are we to do it?
We can't be Marxists because they are too afraid to criticize and re-examine what they are floating on, they will faithfully and "religiously" defend every word and psalm they got. I wish they could consider.
We can't be idealists, because they are full of shit and in their cloudy mind if they think anything it is possible. Waste of breath speaking to the intoxicated.
What we have left is #anarchism but only within those who accept #Bakunin's materialist commitment (NoGodNoMaster) .. those who understand that #communism is not only possible, it is scientifically the only sustainable form of survival for humanity. (Communism NOT State Capitalism)
Those who understand that true equality is the foundation of freedom. #Libertarian #Communist / #Communalist
Theory and ideology, just as it happened with #Marxism, has the risk of forming organizational instruments that inevitably become hierarchical/authoritarian, due to an elite of experts forming around theoretical development. Unfortunately, with society drifting further and further away from struggle for equality, we may need to develop new theory to convince everyone (in our class at least) how futile capitalism is.
And as usual ... we have much work and cooperation that is needed while we are floating in this trend of dismissing any attempt for exploration ..
#OMN #IndyMedia #zapatistas #ezln #rojava #china #dprk #cuba #venezuela
Noticias de abajoPara entender Ecuador
https://ecuadorindymedia.org/
archivio grafton9Che fare? (cit.)
https://grafton9.net/blog/progetti-2026/
Un riassunto delle nostre attività, progetti terminati, in corso, e futuri.
E a breve, la campagna di donazioni per sostenere i nostri esperimenti.
#archivingactivism #webarchiving #emulation #fanzine #indymedia #commons
witchescauldronTalking about the #geekproblem in #openweb funding https://hamishcampbell.com/talking-about-the-geekproblem-in-openweb-funding/ None of this is new, I like meany people been banging this drum since the #indymedia days and writing about it for decades.
Rebuilding Journalism as Commons (not a product)
https://hamishcampbell.com/news-culture-on-the-fediverse/ It should be obvious that we need a path back to good journalism - journalism that sheds light on facts, connects the dots, and lets people trace those dots back to sources. This is what allows us to share, question, and discuss within our own trusted communities, and then spread that knowledge outward through federation, always linking back to the source. Right now, the #mainstreaming path is broken. It’s sometimes hard for people […]https://hamishcampbell.com/rebuilding-journalism-as-commons-not-a-product/