[Summer Soldier]

I just came across this from The Case for Community Wealth Building: “… commons management systems can provide an expanding zone of decommodification to buffer against the market.”

So I wonder what is significantly novel in the idea of knabs that is not present in existing cooperatives (or Community Wealth Building projects) like Cleveland’s Evergreen or the Preston Model. I don’t think an emphasis on removing recurring costs is particularly significant.

As a further aside I always feel it highly paradoxical that there seem to be so many alternatives-to-capitalism abound (eg “credit unions bigger than Goldman Sach in aggregate”, the mentioned examples, or “1,600 ongoing remunicipalization”, all mentioned in the book), yet they all manage to stay (to me; I could be wrong) marginal in terms of power, with only a vague promise of movement growth to be optimistic about. It does seem like some praxis theory is indeed missing.

One thing that has been circulating my mind is imaging what to do if everyone at Apple is a CasP-ist, or concrete steps to take so that CasP-ists obtain the socio-economic leverage comparable to Apple in regard with the outside.

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