As I type this, the scaffolders are marching back and forth along the fast-disappearing scaffolding outside 'my' bedroom window.
This is a metaphor for the next forty days.
Like it or nor, Brexit will happen at the end of those forty days.
We can moan it.
Or we can define what life here, outside my bedroom window, and within, shall be like, after those forty days; as the scaffolder rolls up the green net.
As his co-workers loosen the clamps that hold down the boards and scaffolding tubes, those items get repurposed.
Likewise the old institutions.
Some must be retired, some repurposed, but, for all, life goes on.
So, I propose, Occupy-style, that we mainstream, now, 'What can be, what needs to be, what must be'.
That 'What must be' must be non-authoritarian but not-chaotic.
It must be ecological remedial, socially harmonious, personally nourishing.
I, therefore, propose and request that we institute a forty-day, completely decentralised global discussion to examine the living plan for Co-operative Socialism.
That plan is entirely non-hierarchical, so this proposed discussion could start in any of the following five 'rooms':
A) The replacement of the ownership of economic resources by time-limited undertakings for 'Co-operative Careship' of those resouces on a 'Better-than-fully-repairing-leases'concept.
B) The abolition of 'Rent, Interest and Profits-distributed-to-Managers, CEOs and Shareholders' as, both, unecessary *and* harmful.
C) The introduction of human incomes based on 'A Living Income for Everyone' and, if wished, Paid Work Income between socially-determined lower and upper limits', with as many human needs Community-Provided-and-Free-at-the-point-of-use' (think 'Public Libraries).
D) A wealth-creating, wellness-creating workplace network organised as appropriate Co-operatives (of which there seem four types), all transparently, and enthusiasically, operating according to Internationally-agreed Co-operative Values and Principles and supported by a not-for-profit-interest-free, community co-operative money, banking and finance system.
E) A personal and political-structural inversion: from 'What can I, or we, get?' to 'What can I, and we, give?).
F) A joyful global embrace: of peace and true co-operation, through equality (see 'The Spirit Level' book and www.equalitytrust.org.uk ) as Co-operative Remediation of planet, people and individuals: a global Co-operative Commonweal of national and local Co-operative Commonwealths, 'Thw wellness of all, in The Wellness of All'.
For those who find acronyms helpful, the above is based on the aide-mémoire, 'TRIP-Up'.
ie, The five mechanisms that have existed: but, which *must*, and *can*, be replaced:
TRIP-Up = Theft, Rent, Interest, Profits and Unequal-pay for work).
Thank-you to the scaffolders for your work!
Now, again, I can see the sky and trees!
And go out and put my washing on the line!
John Courtneidge
Littlehampton
12 September 2019
This is a metaphor for the next forty days.
Like it or nor, Brexit will happen at the end of those forty days.
We can moan it.
Or we can define what life here, outside my bedroom window, and within, shall be like, after those forty days; as the scaffolder rolls up the green net.
As his co-workers loosen the clamps that hold down the boards and scaffolding tubes, those items get repurposed.
Likewise the old institutions.
Some must be retired, some repurposed, but, for all, life goes on.
So, I propose, Occupy-style, that we mainstream, now, 'What can be, what needs to be, what must be'.
That 'What must be' must be non-authoritarian but not-chaotic.
It must be ecological remedial, socially harmonious, personally nourishing.
I, therefore, propose and request that we institute a forty-day, completely decentralised global discussion to examine the living plan for Co-operative Socialism.
That plan is entirely non-hierarchical, so this proposed discussion could start in any of the following five 'rooms':
A) The replacement of the ownership of economic resources by time-limited undertakings for 'Co-operative Careship' of those resouces on a 'Better-than-fully-repairing-leases'concept.
B) The abolition of 'Rent, Interest and Profits-distributed-to-Managers, CEOs and Shareholders' as, both, unecessary *and* harmful.
C) The introduction of human incomes based on 'A Living Income for Everyone' and, if wished, Paid Work Income between socially-determined lower and upper limits', with as many human needs Community-Provided-and-Free-at-the-point-of-use' (think 'Public Libraries).
D) A wealth-creating, wellness-creating workplace network organised as appropriate Co-operatives (of which there seem four types), all transparently, and enthusiasically, operating according to Internationally-agreed Co-operative Values and Principles and supported by a not-for-profit-interest-free, community co-operative money, banking and finance system.
E) A personal and political-structural inversion: from 'What can I, or we, get?' to 'What can I, and we, give?).
F) A joyful global embrace: of peace and true co-operation, through equality (see 'The Spirit Level' book and www.equalitytrust.org.uk ) as Co-operative Remediation of planet, people and individuals: a global Co-operative Commonweal of national and local Co-operative Commonwealths, 'Thw wellness of all, in The Wellness of All'.
For those who find acronyms helpful, the above is based on the aide-mémoire, 'TRIP-Up'.
ie, The five mechanisms that have existed: but, which *must*, and *can*, be replaced:
TRIP-Up = Theft, Rent, Interest, Profits and Unequal-pay for work).
Thank-you to the scaffolders for your work!
Now, again, I can see the sky and trees!
And go out and put my washing on the line!
John Courtneidge
Littlehampton
12 September 2019
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