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Dear Stefan,

I'm interested in knowing more about this:

Capitalism isn't even involved by the majority. Following
estimations given by Carola Möller two third of all necessary actions
and things we need for producing our societal life are not produced in
form form of commodities,

Michel

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Stefan Meretz <stefan meretz.de> wrote:

http://www.keimform.de/2008/11/08/seven-hypotheses-about-commonism/

Seven hypotheses about commonism

From StefanMz

[Presentation at »Kooperation statt Wettbewerb, Gemeinwohl statt Profit«
<http://www.elevate.at/commons_panel1.html> @ Elevate-Festival
<http://www.elevate.at/>]

Deutsche Version
<http://www.keimform.de/2008/11/08/sieben-thesen-zum-commonismus/>

1. The world will be commonist or the world will not be.

Capitalism is in deep crisis, somebody speak about a final crisis. If
only capitalism is at stake, this could be gotten over. But we are
capitalism, we are reproducing ourselves by reproducing us within
capitalism by reproducing capitalism itself. If capitalism perishes, we
perish. Thus, commonism is not a simple wish, not a crazy utopia, but
simply an historical, an human necessity.

2. Wanting commonism needs understanding of capitalism

Capitalism is producing people producing capitalism. These dialectics
may not be solved to one side. Neither the „greed" of bank managers
bears the blame, nor we are totally subordinated to the system. We have
to understand the inner self-reproductive kernel of the operating
system of capitalism, in order to act properly. The kernel bases on the
rule, that only those people survive who are able to make more dead
stuff from dead stuff – called money – by exploitation of the living.

3. Without capitalism everything is nothing, but not everything is
capitalism

It is not the case, that capitalism is producing all of our means of
living. Capitalism isn't even involved by the majority. Following
estimations given by Carola Möller two third of all necessary actions
and things we need for producing our societal life are not produced in
form form of commodities, thus are not produced by capitalism. The from
the economy separated sphere is the predominant one, and it is
predominantly done by women. It is the „unvisible" fundament, the other
side of capitalist valuation logic.

4. No commonism without commoning

It is a central insight, that commonism is bound to practical doing, to
maintaining, to vital producing of the living conditions. However,
inside capitalism practical doing is getting the aliened form of
„labour", a spending of energy to transform living things into dead
stuff. Therefore, we have to agree with Massimo De Angelis, when he is
writing: „'refusal of work' as refusal of capital's measures, and
commoning as affirmation of other measures are the two sides of the
same struggle".

5. Commonism is not coming from nowhere

Commonism is existing in capitalism. But commonism is wedged into the
value form: It must „pay off" or at least „financially feasible".
Commonism is only becoming a germ form of a new society if commonism is
able to self-produce on its own fundament. Beyond money, market and
state.

6. Free Software – commonism in a germ form

A prominent example – why I am invited here – is Free Software. Free
Software has left the commodity form and is therefore able to
constitute new social and productive relationships. Free Software is
living within capitalism and is germ form of a new way of socialization
at the same time.

7. Speaking about commonism must not frighten you

„Communism" is a burned word. This should not keep us from speaking
about commonism. If we like it or not: One will object us with
„communism" in any case. But we can say it self-confident: No, this was
not commonism, this was the state-based dictatorial form of capitalism.
If capitalism accuses „communism", then capitalism is accusing itself.

Commonism ist about sociality based on individuality, its about
producing our societal lives beyond market mediated relationships. It's
simply living.

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