“To immunize ourselves from learned helplessness, the best thing is to have encountered neither success nor failure exclusively. Be conscious that there are things which we can control, and things which we cannot. As Epicurus remarked: “We must remember that the future is neither wholly ours nor wholly not ours, so that neither must we count upon it as quite certain to come nor despair of it as quite certain not to come…”
Can commons-oriented peer production be applied to material production? Will activists and contributors to the commons always be forced to work within capitalist structures to subsist while investing their available free time in volunteer activities? How can we create socially-oriented companies without the start-up capital to fund them? Is there a model that will allow us to make a living, produce goods and services and even compete with the dominant hegemony?
“What we have is multimodal environment, and I think we need to look at the economy as having multiple modes of production happening at all given times. I don’t think it should be our objective to try to figure out how we can flip from one to the other, but how we can increase the kinds of producing and sharing that we think are beneficial and want more of and decrease the amount of producing and sharing that happens at ways that we think are destructive and not beneficial, and that we want less of. “
“The objective of Spain’s new Citizen Security Law is very simple: to proscribe politics by criminalizing it, and withdrawing anything other than politics by politicians from circulation. This stunted, meager concept of democracy declares that decision-making is the exclusive right of political parties, public opinion the monopoly of experts, and that the sole role of the citizenry is to vote every four years.”
Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop Translated by Stacco Troncoso, edited by Ann Marie Utratel I recently had occasion to visit Disneyland
@Ciudadano_Zer0 Translated by Stacco Troncoso, edited by Ann Marie Utratel “World War III will be a global information war with
Amador Fernández-Savater Translated by Stacco Troncoso, edited by Ann Marie Utratel How is it possible that fifty people can stop
Madrilonia/@PinkNoiseRev Translated by Stacco Troncoso, edited by Ann Marie Utratel The 15-M movement seems to be at an impasse, unsure
“The interruption of the dominant narrative to create our own is the sort of politics we’re interested in” Amador Fernández-Savater interviews
Image: Marina Gullón Amador Fernández-Savater Translated by Stacco Troncoso, edited by Ann Marie Utratel “A Chinese prose writer has observed
Image: Voces con Futura Bernardo Gutiérrez Translated by Stacco Troncoso, edited by Ann Marie Utratel “The old protests, so dull