The tools now exist to build the commons economy. Not capitalism, not socialism, but owned by all of us in common. https://t.co/7rbi2hDfGT @dilgreen@matslats@cjenscook
Going to be producing a series of articles over the coming year - 'a commoners' manifesto: why Marx was wrong'. Here's the intro. See what you think. https://t.co/E4D0lSUIG9
The potential for building a textile commons. fascinating conversation about what commons might look like in a specific sector like textiles, and how we might get there. @dilgreen@LondonFibreshed@ZoeGilbertson @N_Eng_Fibreshed https://t.co/i5xfZ8oZ7x
World’s first community-owned, commons climbing gym close to reality. A flagship for the commons models (around finance, governance, asset locking and federation) that we’re trialling in Stroud.
https://t.co/gPvUEU96Ij
May the 4th be with you: the Empire vs the Commons Rebel Alliance. How the Empire operates, previous attempts to defeat the Empire, how the Empire will attack, why the Alliance will win, and how you can help. https://t.co/90UYFLEGZf @dilgreen
@yanisvaroufakis When, though, do we move beyond shoulds and oughts - asking mummy and daddy to be better - and start building for ourselves.
We are the adults in the room (to use a phrase you know well), we should start behaving like grownups and doing needful things.
There is a strategy...
Democrats are competent neoliberals and will therefore reliably push humanity towards extinction. With Trump, there was always the hope that he would fuck up the US economy, and therefore its ability to inflict damage on the world. And I think he might have just done it.