Re: Fwd: [ox-en] Talk on "Social economy or peer production? - On the relationship of
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:18:47 +0200
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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