Left theorizing (and praxis) has mostly failed to incorporate the insights and lived experience of the last 30 years of open-source development, ownership, and distribution—leaving the field largely shaped by a kind of humanist libertarianism: strong in its expression of democratic individualism, weaker on the requirements of coordinated mutualism.

This is disappointing, given that socialism itself developed in part as an attempt to reclaim, organize, and systematize the commons tradition within expanding state societies.

What might come from a deliberate and sustained attempt to bring these traditions together within the federated web—perhaps through a worldwide network within the Fediverse oriented toward global collective solidarity, mutual support, and active resistance?

Would anyone be interested in forming an online community to explore and advance such an effort?

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#TheCommunitariumProject

Many local candidates build campaigns on messaging and fundraising, but some recent successes grow from deeper involvement in community life. A “communitarium”—a community-owned, open-source civic commons—can help residents work together long before elections. It strengthens trust, aligns means with values, and gives political life a place to exist between campaigns.

#TheCommunitariumProject
#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
#UnderstandMamdani

https://seizethemeans.communitarium.org/baslow/preparing-to-run-by-strengthening-the-ground-toward-a-more-embodied-local

The Law of the Excluded Schmooze

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https://seizethemeans.communitarium.org/baslow/the-law-of-the-excluded-schmooze

Why Redefine Socialism?

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Classical socialism—especially in its Marxist and state-centered variants—tends to treat sociality as either:

- a derivative of economic conditions, or
- something that will naturally emerge once class antagonisms are resolved.

But our project insists that sociality is not a byproduct—it is the substrate.

https://seizethemeans.communitarium.org/baslow/why-redefine-socialism

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The Communitarium Project - II

Imagining a New Way of Life: From Capitalist Erosion to Real Utopias [...]

https://seizethemeans.communitarium.org/baslow/the-communitarium-project-jf5t