From the Communism of Capital to Capital for the Commons: Towards an Open Co-operativism
Abstract
Two prominent social progressive movements are faced with a few contradictions and a paradox. On the one side, we have a re-emergence of the co-operative movement and worker-owned enterprises which suffer from certain structural weaknesses. On the other, we have an emergent field of open and Commons-oriented peer production initiatives which create common pools of knowledge for the whole of humanity, but are dominated by start-ups and large multinational enterprises using the same Commons. Thus we have a paradox: the more communist the sharing license used in the peer production of free software or open hardware, the more capitalist the practice. To tackle this paradox and the aforementioned contradictions, we tentatively suggest a new convergence that would combine both Commons-oriented open peer production models with common ownership and governance models, such as those of the co-operatives and the solidarity economic models.
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Many of these technologies are able to scale up and down, making it possible to create distributed collaborative organizations that could help smaller regional areas protect their own commons.
“Furthermore, Bauwens and Kostakis (2014) note that many of these technologies are able to scale up and down, making it possible to create distributed collaborative organizations (or 'open co-operativism' as they call it) that could be used to help smaller, regional areas protect their own commons”
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There is little discussion about the fact that many TNCs appropriate 'free software code for profit maximization and capital accumulation.'
“And there is little discussion about the fact that, as Bauwens and Kostakis (2014, 357) note, many TNCs appropriate 'free software code for profit maximization and capital accumulation.'”
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- Authors
- Bauwens, M., & Kostakis, V.
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- tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society
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- Information Society Research
- Published
- 2014-04-03
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- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 356-361
- ISSN
- 1726-670X
- Cited by
- 74
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