Bob Thomson, April 10, 2017
An exciting new paradigm of transition to a post-capitalist world is unfolding in the forms of platform cooperativism, open source peer to peer manufacturing, agricultural and production technologies and convivial degrowth. It proposes a reduction of our societal and industrial metabolism to a level that is sustainable on our limited planet, based on the commons, i.e. resources and governance more in the hands of community and social movements than of individuals or corporations or authoritarian and/or sectarian political elites. I present here an overview of why we need this transition, some elements of what it might look like and an introduction to the largely European peer to peer and convivial degrowth movements.
http://homepages.web.net/~bthomson/geocities/The_Transition_to_a_Post_Capitalist_World.pdf
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