Tag Archives: Alternative Economies

Anti-capitalist economies in post-15M spain: Mondragón, Cooperatives and Okupations

… I am bound to suppose that the realisation of Socialism will tend to make men happy.  What is it then that makes people happy?  Free and full life and the consciousness of life. William Morris In spain, there are … Continue reading

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Imagining/Creating Autonomy: Abraham Guillén

The struggle to imagine and put into place an autonomous, self-managed society is at the heart of anarchism, and for anarchists, something that is present in any revolutionary politics, whether of the past or the present.  During the spanish revolution … Continue reading

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Updates from Greece — Economies against Capitalism

While resistance in Greece against the capitalist onslaught is still going strong, another side of the struggle, one that is less visible in the media, is emerging — we might say a positive moment in the dialectics of the revolution. … Continue reading

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Talking about a revolution!

If resistance must bring with it a new way to live, a life more liveable that opposes itself to the differential distribution of precariousness, then acts of resistance will say no to a way of life at the same time … Continue reading

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15M’s spain: In the balance of protest and creation

15M continues to walk the limenal space between political contestation and the construction of other worlds … a space without identity, always in the making … the space of autonomy …

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News from nowhere: 15M’s spain

Merely negative action inevitably engages with capital on capital’s own terms, and on capital’s terms we shall always lose, even when we win. …The problem of struggle is to move onto a different dimension from capital, not to engage with … Continue reading

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Touching Utopias: Reflections on Revolution in the Form of a Dreaming Wanderer’s Unfinished Spanish Travel Diary

…the final regime imagined by socialists cannot be fixed at a determined date by a sociological prediction; it is in the present.  It is not outside us; it is in our own hearts.  Socialism is being realized every day, under … Continue reading

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From a cartography of 15M to cartographies of resistance/insurrection

As the first anniversary of 15M in spain passes, it is time to also change perspectives on the stories of resistance and rebellion that mark our times.  Autonomies began before the wave of insurrection that seems to have characterised 2011, … Continue reading

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Update from Greece

  Reel News release – Greece First Cut Preview: Community Organising   This is one of 9 films on the growing resistance in Greece that are nearing completion. This one shows the community organisation running in parallel to the growing … Continue reading

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Participatory Economics (Parecon) – An interview with Michael Albert

There is an alternative: participatory economics Roarmag, April 21, 2012 In this interview, Michael Albert — co-founder of Znet — reflects on the vision of participatory economics, and how it could take us beyond capitalism. This interview is part of … Continue reading

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