Jean-David Bar on Nostr: I like to explore the road that could lead to anarchy. Here is a fisrt and short ...

I like to explore the road that could lead to anarchy. Here is a fisrt and short draft of how I see things now, this is an invitation to thoughts and oppositions.

From where I am, capitalism does not answer, because of the accumulation of capital that equates to accumulation of power. Communism as we have seen it (rather state capitalism or state monopoly) does not answer because of the centralised control that equates to centralised power.

So the central question is how to prevent the accumulation and centralisation of power.

My current thoughts point to a balance between a pool of commons and private property while offering freedom to all.

Commons would include at a basic layer things that support life and society for everyone (land and its resources including water, air, open source softwares). They should be administered democratically through direct democracy or random draw for representatives. Local scale and multi-layer is important for decentralisation, focus and competition among jurisdictions (communes, counties, drainage basins...) that could decide to create new common or not via public services they want. Revenue generated from conmons could replace taxation and fund basic incomes to eliminate poverty, prevent enslavement and guarantee people could pay for sustaining commons.

Private property would be for everything else (buildings, companies...), and would be de facto limited by not being able to appropriate commons, and by introducing a balance with an usage property (through cooperativism or in between models). This is important to avoid once again the concentration of assets, thus power.

Free markets and competition among democratic entities and privately owned businesses would "regulate" all of this.

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