The Power of Neighborhood and The Commons

by P.M.

A new practical proposal for reshaping the future, based on this prognosis of the present: "Our economic system is stumbling from one collapse to the next Our system is fundamentally flawed and destabilized by internal contradictions. To point out one of them: income can only be generated by work, but work is getting scarce at the moment and will become even scarcer in the future. Thus the 'purchasing power' that capital needs to realize value is strangulated by itself. These contradictions are being deferred into the future by financial manipulations The metaphor of the train racing towards an abyss and the need to pull the emergency brake must spring to mind. Since the braking distance has meanwhile become longer than the distance to the abyss, we have to think in terms of parachutes."

74 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2014

Reviews

[tyler collin · Rating 2 out of 5]

boring and lacking focus. wish i went into it knowing it was utopian writing because i was expecting a much more critical take, ended up extremely disappointed 10 pages in (are we using capital or not?). seems like this was partly an application of bolo’bolo’s population structures to a reformed urban commons, i guess. weird euro-centrism as well

[Ed · Rating 1 out of 5]

my reading group read this book. we were really excited about it because we all loved bolo'bolo. this book is awful; everyone hated it. as one participant put it: "it reads like galileo's writing when he was forced to recant. " read bolo'bolo instead.