Promotion of commons and a solidary community

What's the problem?

Profit-oriented management means that production is not in relation to the needs of society but to profit interests. Social and ecological damage is externalised and not included.

What's the measure?

Supporting the non-profit and cooperative sector of economy through legislations, → subsidies and tax exemptions. This sector, which is becoming increasingly important everywhere, currently includes alternative consumer and production cooperatives and Commons-oriented-networks for supply in areas such as health, housing, education or artistic activities. → commons. Introduce "law for the commons" at various levels.

How can the implementation look like?

• Promotion of collective administrative structures and forms of production based on solidarity, such as solidarity-based agriculture. This can be done through Commons Public Partnerships, among others: Agreements on long-term cooperation between commoners and state institutions to solve specific problems, e.g. community-based telecommunications systems or health care
• Reforms on Cooperative Laws, which facilitates and supports start-ups
• The right to take over production facilities by the workers* in the event of threatened closure

Further literature and sources

1. Research & Degrowth: Ye, We Can Prosper Without Growth (2015, abgerufen am 2.3.2020) https://degrowth.org/2015/05/15/yes-we-can-prosper-without-growth/
2. Schmelzer, Matthias & Vetter, Andrea (2019): Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung.
3. Silke Helfrich, David Bollier: Frei, Fair und Lebendig - die Macht der Commons (abgerufen am 2.3.2020) https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/80/d3/99/oa9783839445303x6PZNAcn0tTUh.pdf
4. Meretz & Sutterlütti: (2018): Kapitalimus aufheben. Eine Einladung über Utopie und Transformation neu nachzudenken
5. Matthias Neuling: Rechtsformen für alternative Betriebe (abgerufen am 2.3.2020) https://www.kj.nomos.de/fileadmin/kj/doc/1986/19863Neuling_S_309.pdf
6. David Bollier: Reinventing Law for the Commons (abgerufen am 2.3.2020) https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Reinventing_Law_for_the_Commons

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Yes, we can prosper without growth: https://degrowth.org/2015/05/15/yes-we-can-prosper-without-growth/

Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, Degrowth/Postwachstum https://www.junius-verlag.de/buecher/degrowthpostwachstum

Silke Helfrich, David Bollier: Frei, Fair und Lebendig - die Macht der Commons, S. 73 https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4530-9/frei-fair-und-lebendig-die-macht-der-commons/

Meretz & Sutterlütti: Kapitalimus aufheben. Eine Einladung über Utopie und Transformation neu nachzudenken. 2018? https://www.vsa-verlag.de/nc/buecher/detail/artikel/kapitalismus-aufheben/https://www.vsa-verlag.de/nc/buecher/detail/artikel/kapitalismus-aufheben/

Neuling: Rechtsformen für alternative Betriebe. In: Kritische Justiz 1986, S. 309 ff.https://www.kj.nomos.de/?id=2741

Bollier: Reinventing Law for the Commons. A Strategy Memo for the Böll Foundation. 2015 https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Reinventing_Law_for_the_Commons