Re: Fwd: [ox-en] Talk on "Social economy or peer production? - On the relationship of

thank u!

> 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.
>
>
>       Grüße
>
>       Stefan
>
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>
> -----------------------------
> 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
>


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Andreas Exner,
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Grüne/UG Kärnten
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