A highly informative article on various strategies for developing and organizing community infrastructure without utilizing the extractive traditional banking system.

I personally find horizontally focused economic dialogue rare, so it's refreshing to see financial knowledge leveraged to pave the way *out of* our current system, rather than funneling resources back *into* it.

Along with all the tools spoken of in the article, there's also mention of Viable Systems, the framework behind Chile's Cybersyn and also revived in @Anark's A Modern Anarchism.

If you have a sufficient coalition around some community need and are unsure of how to organizationally or financially proceed, I believe this article is for you.

I also just recommend Resilience in general.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-12-17/tools-for-growing-the-commons/

#anarchism #organizing #community #solarpunk

Tools for growing the commons

The true strength lies in the careful combination of these tools into multi-layered, living systems—creating the conditions not just for protection, but for long-term flourishing.

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