Interview

“Anti-Roma racism is useful for justifying the capitalist system”
Activism, Decolonialism, Feminism, Interview, Meritxell Rigol

“Anti-Roma racism is useful for justifying the capitalist system”

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What better argument to justify these pockets of poverty than to say that they’re poor because they want to be that way? Because that’s just how they are. That’s just how they want to be. Anti-Roma racism is actually very useful for justifying that capitalism works. I mean, it leaves the system intact. It’s not that the system couldn’t eradicate poverty, it’s not that there isn’t enough work for everyone; it’s just that the poor are poor because they want to be.

“Economics is not just about money; it’s about our holistic well-being as a planet”
Activism, Decolonialism, Interview, María Sanz Domínguez, New Economy, Nonty Charity Sabic, P2P/Commons, Post-Capitalism, Translation, Video

“Economics is not just about money; it’s about our holistic well-being as a planet”

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“How a person lives and interacts with others and with nature is called ubuntu. This indigenous knowledge reminds us that we are humans thanks to mother nature. She belongs to us and we belong to her. But we have forgotten who we are and that we have a deep connection to nature.”

Activism, Amador Fernández-Savater, Featured, Interview, John Holloway, Post-Capitalism, Translation

Cracking Capitalism vs. The State Option

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“We met with John Holloway in the city of Puebla, Mexico, to ask him if, after everything that has happened in the past decade, from the progressive governments of Latin America to Podemos and Syriza in Europe, along with the problems for self-organised practices to exist and multiply, he still thinks that it is possible to “change the world without taking power”.

Interview, P2P/Commons, Philippe Langlois, Translation

When hackers and farmers join forces

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“Rural towns often suffer abuses motivated by engineering consultancies and large corporations’ financial interests. Certain hackerlands arise as an alternative to these structures, turning into local, non-profit consultants of sorts. They meet some of the rural area’s needs – particularly digital de-isolation – by creating independent Internet networks that work in mountainous or isolated areas, setting up local, democratic servers, regional Internet radios, etc.”