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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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From basic income to social dividend: sharing the value of common resources

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By Rajesh Makwana It’s time to broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income by including options for sharing resource rents, which is a model that can be applied internationally to reform unjust economic systems, reduce extreme...
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On the basic income law, economic democracy, participatory economics, and the importance of the commons in the 21st Century: Further thoughts on an alternative philosophy of social change

On the basic income law, economic democracy, participatory economics, and the importance of the commons in the 21st Century: Further thoughts on an alternative philosophy of social change | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

It appears to me that in majority of discussions about life after capitalism and possible social-economic alternatives, a very familiar anxiety tends to surface and resurface. This anxiety, I argue, is both existential and social in nature. It is the result of what I describe as one of the most fundamental philosophical problems of the 21st Century: namely that if capitalism, as a system of in-direct domination, emerged in history as an alternative to systems of direct domination; how might we then formulate, in the present, a truly progressive and emancipatory alternative without reproducing direct or in-direct systems of domination?

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P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » New Campaign on Basic Income and Peer Production

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“My research project is an exploration of an alternative way of organizing the production, outside of the capitalist logic based on the obligation to work, separation between producers and consumers, and the orientation on profit and not the benefit.”

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