18:55
Co-operative socialism and land issues co-operative socialism abolishes the ownership of economic resources and replaces our relationship as humans with economic resources including land air sea electromagnetic radiation frequencies, etc, etc. with agreements for Co-operative care ship
these agreements are designed to ensure that remediation of land is carried out on a co-op basis. It's one step on from the idea of a fully repairing lease in such place.
The lessee's agree to hand back the resource in As good Estate as they went into the lease.
in an agreement with the community for Co-operative careship of land the idea is that the people who agree to care for that land resource decide and agree to improve the land and at the end of there? Use for the common. Good of that land resource the land is in better shape fertility. Etc than when they went into the agreement for Co-operative care ship.
For those of us. Who approached these matters in a religious or spiritual sense?
We are talking about pan n theism. not pantheism which is the idea that everything is God but rather that God is present within everything.
accordingly
if we take control of an Economic Resource and use it for our own purposes or that of our family or particular group even if it is a co-operative. then selection implies
removal from attachment as part of the whole.
in co-operative care ship the idea is that the co-operators and it could be a single cooperator decide to adopt and implement the plan for Co-operative socialism including the Co-operative values and principles from the international co-operative Alliance as their principles and values by which they will care for the resource.
this applies as much to physical land the air the seas and Waterways electromagnetic radiation and also to what I might call frozen land. In other words buildings tools equipment anything where land based resources have had value added to them in order to help human beings live full healthy and happy lives. Which leads us to the question of wealth creation and also workplace organisation that's the next topic.
19:09
workplace issues in co-operative socialism
in capitalism work is simply a demand upon the lives of people to provide for the capitalist maximum return in the shortest possible time.
this creates immense inequality which means that everyone the manager's the capitalists the workers unemployed the retired children infants babies teenagers students everyone suffers
So in co-operative socialism every workplace is reassigned to a cooperative structure one of four possibilities in the social economy. Wear a market using money still exists for as long as money is used by people. The two co-operative workplace forms are either monopolies. Which are organised as community cooperatives? And market based social economy Enterprises which are organised as individual worker cooperatives.
the common Bond to all of this are the Co-operative values and principles that are contained in the Statement on the Co-operative identity from the international co-operative Alliance which co-operators worldwide refresh every 30 or so years as they are doing at the present time.
so that a new statement on the Co-operative identity not statement of the Co-operative identity is published after agreement.
One way in which workplace cooperatives can ensure that they remain true and faithful to the Co-operative values and principles is for them to carry out internally and annual co-operative audit so that play review The Years work. And decide that if there are values and principles which they didn't pay attention to during the last year. They will try and so in the year to come.
So in parallel with those market-based cooperatives community cooperatives in the Monopoly sector worker cooperatives in the diversity of provision market sector there are two forms of operatives, which will serve well in the solidarity economy.
again, where these Form and natural Monopoly then they need to be community cooperatives, which will require funding as long as mum still is used by Society so that they can function.
In the diversity of provision aspect of the solidarity economy, then those cooperatives. Gain by worker cooperatives each one of which will require some form of subsidy by the community in order to carry out their work.
for example
the royal national lifeboat institution forms a natural Monopoly in a particular area And so could receive as it does at the moment community support in terms of finance and individual support in terms of activities as Lifesavers those Lifesavers will not need to be paid to do this work. They will probably volunteer as they do at the moment, but since they will be receiving a guaranteed not means-tested or not mean tested living income for everyone. They could decide that is their contribution to society and they don't need to add to that through paid work in the social economy sector. Which brings are to the questions of incomes and will deal with that in the next section?
19:22
co-operative socialism and income issues
at present within capitalism most people be 88% received their incomes in the form of payment for work. Or benefits social assistance from the community.
the latter includes pensioners Who very often have a community or state provided pension along with a workplace pension? The income of which is due to the work of the current employees along with rent interest and profits which are included in the pension pot from Investments so-called bye. the trustees for the pension
in co-operative socialism people's incomes
are dramatically reduced because the majority of their needs are met on a socialist basis community provided and free at the point of use so for example. At present public libraries are community provided and therefore are free at the point of use. at least win the local authorities which fund their public libraries are fully committed to a life Learning Community
since rent interest and profits along with taxation of income and taxation of purchases are abolished in the plan for Co-operative socialism. People's need for money is dramatically reduced.
The spirit level book tells us that a much reduced income distribution is good for everyone in a society. People live longer healthier and happier lives their families drive their communities are welcoming and happy when the income distribution within them is dramatically reduced. Accordingly the plan for Co-operative socialism ensures that no one has too much and no one has to little.
The basis for income for everyone is a guaranteed liveable income for everyone a life. Such that the community decides through a reformed second chamber nationally the House of Lords what money level of guaranteed living income is sensible for people to live a decent life. Some people will decide that that's all the income that they need they could therefore be full-time carers in homes carers in the community students retired people enjoying a well-earned rest and so on.
Some people will decide that they need to be paid and in addition to receiving their living income or they might even decide to not take their living income from the community but simply decide to have a paintwork income.
There needs therefore to be a social determination of what that maximum paperwork income is to be either as a multiplier of the level of the Living income for everyone. or as I
money denominated maximum
either way the second chamber a reformed House of Lords reformed on a random ocracy basis will annually decide a recommendation as to the money level of the Living income for everyone and that maximum working come and make an annual recommendation to the sovereign House the House of Commons both of which will be organised on a one member per parliamentary constituency in the House of Commons case and elected.
In the second house a reformed House of Lords a person chosen by lot to effectively operate a people's jury in the second house and retiring after a third three-year course.
it may be the case that Society decides that an all out and all in second chamber pop kitchen is a good idea or Retiring by 1/3 experience will tell us which is the better way.
Finally since the majority of human needs and to an extent human once are provided free at the point of use by the community on a genuinely co-operative socialist basis in the end money and its equivalence will simply disappear. Society will decide that we are ready to live in a state of love and friendship and not use money as a present as a whip on people's back and some form of analysis as to whose contribution is which in that better state. We will even be closer to the King of Heaven the Jesus speaks of
19:33
co-operative socialism money banking and finance issues
since co-operative socialism abolishes rent interest and profits and decides a much reduced level of income inequality the question of the use of money. in a world of co-operative socialism becomes important
the most obvious solution to the question of banking and finance for cooperatives. Is 4 banks to be effectively? the common purse filled up by the community as it's market-based social economy cooperatives generate. financial surplus
Which capitalism would call its profits so that they financial service industry becomes a benefit to wealth creation?
accordingly one model of a banking system would be a collection of solidarity cooperatives where the community decides through a mixture of grant and living incomes to everyone.
For those cooperatives to operate on an interest-free and not-for-profit basis.
Eventually of course since the use of money will disappear. These banking systems will become redundant.
one possible
future development for the banking system Would be as part of the international support which a nation-state gives to the generation of a global Co-operative commonweal. in such a state if a
country which feels that it needs extra support from countries which are more favourably placed in it could make an appeal to the National banking systems for financial support on a grant not basis.
That leads us to the whole question of international solidarity work which will be part of the next section.
19:46
Tying up some loose ends.
first of all let me reiterate that the objective of co-operative socialism is not what can I get the other what can I and what can we give?
in terms of International Affairs this means that we all contribute as best we can
2 a world of wellness happiness peace and sustainable prosperity for all
this is the concept of a cooperative commonweal.
secondly a present capitalism in its latest utterly degenerate form
privatising knowledge data information but not in any sense privatising Wisdom because as far as capitalism is concerned, Wisdom and understanding. Our it's poison once we know the capitalism is simply trashing the planet and burning up. Everyone's lives and that includes the 10% that forms a praetorian guard. To protect the 2% the monarchy the aristocracy and the capitalists
Then we know that we need a replacement for capitalism.
Experience has told us that revolutionary events simply replace one set of buses with another set of bosses.
We don't need any buses and in actual fact within co-operative socialism since there are no positions of power. Then wanna-be bosses cannot migrate to those positions of power to tell everyone else what to do.
Because we will all know what our best contribution is.
Knowledge therefore cannot be privatised.
if a particular co-operative discovers a better way of doing something Or in vents something completely no. Then it is their contribution to everyone else's well-being and therefore their own well-being to share and give that information knowledge and data as quickly as possible. That's then becomes wisdom.
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