Re: Fwd: [ox-en] Talk on "Social economy or peer production? - On the relationship of
Stefan Merten <[email protected]>
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Hi list, Andreas, all! Last week (7 days ago) Stefan Merten wrote: > Please find below a half-cooked version of the first half of the > slides. Here is the third quarter about "Commonalities and differences". This is probably the most interesting one. Comments are welcome of course. GrüÃe Stefan === 8< === 8< === 8< === 8< === 8< === 8< === 8< === 8< === 8< === 8< === ----------------------------- Commonalities and differences ----------------------------- Common goals ============ * Improve life by economic activity * Attain goals impossible in capitalism * Participation and empowering * Though: For social / solidarity economy not always .. highlights:: There are common goals Structural commonalities ======================== * Economic activities * == production, distribution, consumption of goods * Though: Differences in relevance of production * Beneficiaries inside and outside * Embedded in capitalism * Individuals as predominant actors .. highlights:: There are similar structures Differences concerning economic activities ========================================== +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ |Topic |Social / solidarity |Peer | | |economy |production | +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ |Relevance |Secondary (if at all) |Predominant | |of | | | |production | | | +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ |Distribution |Closed groups |Commons (external | |target | |openness) | | | | | +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ |Reason for |Political will |Selbstentfaltung | |activity | | | | | | | +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ |Precondition |Political will |Education / | |for activity | |abilities in the | | | |respective field | +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ .. highlights:: Many differences Differences in subjective values ================================ +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ |Topic |Social / solidarity |Peer production | | |economy | | +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ |Mind set of |Capitalism |New mode of | |actors bound |(supplementing and |production | |to... |opposing both relate | | | |to capitalism) | | +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ |Political |Key |None in particular| |values | | | | | | | +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ |Solidarity |Key |Irrelevant | | | | | | | | | +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ |Participation|Political goal (if at |Precondition | |and |all) |(internal | |empowering | |openness) | +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ .. highlights:: Peer production does not need political awareness Differences concerning mode of production ========================================= +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ |Topic |Social / solidarity |Peer production | | |economy | | +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ |Mode of |Basically identical to|New mode of | |production |capitalism |production | | | | | +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ |If capitalism|...would be no longer |...would still be | |would work |necessary |better than | |better... | |capitalism | | | | | +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ |Keeping |...is difficult |...is easy because| |capitalism |because of equal |of openness | |out of... |structures | | +-------------+----------------------+------------------+ .. highlights:: New mode of production is more sustainable Summarizung commonalities and differences ========================================= * Some common goals and structures * Because of that the left gets interested in peer production * Major differences are running deep * Openness is precondition instead of limitation * Selbstentfaltung instead of political will * New mode of production instead of supplement to capitalism .. highlights:: Though goals and some structures are similar the means are very different The social enterprise compass ============================= +---------------------+--------------------------+ | |Ownership | | +--------------+-----------+ | |Public |Private | +----------+----------+--------------+-----------+ |Primary |Social |Social |Social | |objective |purpose |administration|enterprises| |of the +----------+--------------+-----------+ |enterprise|Commercial|Public |Private | | |purpose |enterprises |industries | +----------+----------+--------------+-----------+ * Source: http://www.equal-xop.org/www_main.php?page_id=1271 .. highlights:: Useful to classify projects / enterprises Peer production and the social enterprise compass ================================================= +---------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | |Ownership | | +--------------+--------------+-----------+ | |Commons / |Public |Private | | |Community | | | +----------+----------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+ |Primary |Selbstentfaltung|*Peer |\- |\- | |objective | |production* | | | |of the +----------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+ |enterprise|Social |(Side-effect |Social |Social | | |purpose |of ownership) |administration|enterprises| | +----------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+ | |Commercial |(Commercial |Public |Private | | |purpose |peer |enterprises |industries | | | |production) | | | +----------+----------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+ .. highlights:: Peer production is hard to locate in the social enterprise compass _________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.org/ Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/ Contact: [email protected]