La Dar — an activist social center in Marseille, France — are trying to buy out the property they've been in for over 10 years.

https://la-dar.org/

Purchase will allow them to continue long-term, resist gentrification, etc. €70,000 already raised, only €50,000 to go! (English info on page)

#international #ventureCommunism

"The Luddites did what every science fiction writer does: they took a technology and imagined all the different ways it could be used – who it could be used for and whom it could be used against. They demanded the creation of a parallel universe in which the left fork was taken, rather than the right." - @pluralistic

https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-is-a-luddite-literature/

"Democratizing access to the means of production isn’t intrinsically anti-labor – it’s only bad for workers when the bounty of automation is disproportionally al­located to a small number of capital owners, and not workers."

#scifi #venturecommunism #coop #cooperative

#DymitriKleiner pitching his #VentureCommunism concept at #SigInt 2010:
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=L01iiJz8Thc

This is worth a watch even if you consider yourself pro-capitalist and anti-communist, because as he explains at the start, the way he uses these terms is *totally* different from the way you do. #DougRushkoff presents pretty much the same criticisms of the effects of #VentureCapitalism on digital tech in his 'Throwing Rocks ...' book, but with a pro-business, anti-corporate framing.

@[email protected] have you read Telekommunist Manifesto and #VentureCommunism?

http://telekommunisten.net/the-telekommunist-manifesto/