Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism

Cover
About the book
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Tables, Figures and Boxes
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Omnia Sunt Communia
	Our time
	Plan C
	I am a commoner
	What will follow
Part One: Commons as systems
	1. Common goods
		The twofold character of common goods
		On common goods
		The economist
		Messing up the neat picture
		Taxonomies
		Selection and strategic horizons
		Material basis
	2. Systems
		Restarting from the ordinary: social systems and daily life
		Subjects and systems
		Basic properties of all systems
		Commons systems
		The typology of commons
		Commons and capital
		Commons = S/E = power = enacted social force
		Power-force/values-goals
	3. Elements
		Pillars
		Commoning briefly explained
		Community briefly explained
		Commonwealth
Part Two: From Elinor Ostrom to Karl Marx
	4. Commons governance
		Commons and open access
		Common-pool resources and resource units
		Common-pool resources and property regimes
		Design principles, rules and commons regimes
		Exogenous or endogenous forces?
	5. The money nexus and the commons formula
		Two circuits
		Actors’ positions: capitalists and commoners
		The money circuit of capital
		The coupling of circuits
		The commons circuit
		Further reflections
Part Three: Commoning: the source of grassroots power
	6. Mobilising social labour for commoning
		Commoning as a mode of exercising powers
		Setting commoning in motion: lessons from the Andes
		Communal labour
		Reciprocal labour
		Mobilising social labour for the commons in modern societies
	7. The production of autonomy, boundaries and sense
		Commoning as creation of autonomy and self-reliance
		Further observations on autonomy
		Commoning as generative force of autopoiesis
		Going back to the commons circuit and the capital circuit
		Boundaries
		Boundaries, commoning and abstract labour
		Boundaries and property rights
		Production of boundaries through meaning and sense: measure
Part Four: Social change
	8. Boundary commoning
		Political recomposition and social revolution
		The development of capitalist commons
		The stuff of explosion: multiplication, interweaving and tipping point
		Recomposition, scale, and network: the magic of boundary commoning
		The case of Genuino Clandestino
	9. Commons and capital/state
		Commons movement: the Cochabamba water wars of 2000
		Commons and capital as social systems
		Commons co-optation
		Structural coupling between capital and commons
		Using the other’s complexity: a new commons deal?
		Capital/state and commons mutual conditioning
		‘Commonisation’
		The complexity of social transformation
	10. Towards postcapitalism
		Emancipation
		Commons, social movements and social fabric
		Complexity disentangled
		Commons movements
Notes
References
Index
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