A penetrating cultural critique, table-pounding political treatise, and practical playbook for commoning, this volume presents a bold and compelling alternative to the dead-end, predatory market-state system.
It presents a compelling narrative: that we can be Free and creative people, govern ourselves through Fair and accountable institutions, and experience the aliveness of authentic human presence..
Free, Fair, and Alive provides a fresh, non-academic synthesis of contemporary Commons written for a popular, activist-minded audience.
Highly readable and full of colorful stories, coverage includes: Internal dynamics of commoning How the Commons worldview opens up new possibilities for change Role of language in reorienting our perceptions and political strategies Seeing the potential of commoning everywhere.
Written by two leading Commons activists of our time, this guide is a penetrating cultural critique, table-pounding political treatise, and practical playbook.
It offers a compelling vision of a future beyond the dead-end binary of capitalism versus socialism that has almost brought the world to its knees.
Free, Fair, and Alive presents a foundational re-thinking of the Commons -- the self-organized social system that humans have used for millennia to meet their needs.
From co-housing and agroecology to fisheries and open-source everything, people around the world are increasingly turning to \'commoning\' to emancipate themselves from a predatory market-state system.
The Power of the Commons as a free, Fair system of provisioning and governance beyond capitalism, socialism, and other -isms.
A penetrating cultural critique, table-pounding political treatise, and practical playbook for commoning, this volume presents a bold and compelling alternative to the dead-end, predatory market-state system
