1. An Exchange between John Griffin and Takis Fotopoulos
(Concept/Polemics)

...oad outline encompasses the familiar system of recallable delegates applied to workplace assemblies, local community assemblies and a confederal assembly. These are to function together in a societ...

2. Bourgeois Anarchism and Authoritarian Democracies
(Concept/Anarchism)

...dual whose mind is manifestly mediated, once again, by the minds of those forming his/her smaller or larger community. This mediation is indeed manifest: its patterns can be directly read off the di...

3. Imagining and Enacting Noncapitalist Futures
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...s article is licensed under the Creative Commons. Source:  University of Notre Dame. For the Community Economies Collective [1] Feminists…want to leave their husbands, aband...

4. The anarchist urban ecosystem
(Concept/Anarchism)

... lost in transportation when compared to the current agricultural methods. Urban farms and especially community farms within our cities would benefit more than just us people. They would creat...

5. Between Art and Anarchism; Horisontalism in New Social Practices
(Concept/Anarchism)

... of slightly overripe fruit sweating in the sun emerges every Sunday morning. Young and old residents of the community stand together in the piercing midday Los Angeles sun, beads of sweat pricking th...

6. The African Commons
(Concept/Gift Economy)

... In one sense African communities have always known and valued the idea that sharing is important. The community often plays a huge role in every person's success, even here in the US. In Z...

7. The Gift – Mauss, Bataille, Hyde, and Derrida
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...nbsp; 2. The gift as a improductive expenditure    3. The gift as productive of relationship, community, and time ...

8. Outline of an Economic Model for an Inclusive Democracy
(Concept/Anarchism)

...; and b) the libertarian–socialist proposals which fall under either worker–oriented models or community–oriented models. A typical example of the ‘civil societarian&r...

9. Breaking Out Of The System Loop
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...Country by Les Scher) If you don't mind starting over with strangers, you can join an existing dropout community. (See the Communities Directory.) You can live in a van, camp in the woods, or l...

10. Big and Small Obstacles to Living in Community
(Concept/Roots)

Eberhard Arnold: Big and Small Obstacles to Living in Community. (1933.) Source: Plough Publishing House. If everybody wants to be in the right, or even if only one person wants to be in the

11. The Digital Commons
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...capitalism and private enterprise, but is nevertheless a radical reformulation of the relationship between community, corporation, and public authorities, and furthermore, nothing prevents us from ...

12. Integrating Six Models of a Better Way to Live
(Concept/Anarchism)

...The Unschooling Movement: This movement offers a model of self-directed learning, guided by mentors in the community, to replace the industrial education system. It appreciates that we are all born...

13. Cooperative Economy in Salinas
(Concept/Anarchism)

...ate making, herbal medicine and trash collection, a radio station an hotel, a hostel, and a „office of community tourism”. The area has an interesting history.  Only a generation...

14. Community Currencies : A New Tool for the 21st Century
(Concept/Gift Economy)

Bernard Lietaer: Community Currencies : A New Tool for the 21st Century. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons. The three most important concerns of our contemporaries in the dev

15. The Death of Politics
(Concept/Roots)

... similar to today's conservatives, who ceded to the state the power to produce not simply order in the community but a certain kind of order. It was European conservatives who, apparently...

16. Out of the Fullness...
(Concept/Gift Economy)

..., health, or education. Their position is that employee giving needs to come from the heart and soul of the community of the company. It needs to be something that the givers authentically feel is ...

17. Reflections on Cultural Politics
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...Such organizations tap the playful fantasies and popular metaphors and grassroots infrastructure of the fan community and turn it towards the goal of transforming the society. In some cases, they a...

18. Graceful Giving Listening for Surprise
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...duals and small organizations are closer to the ground, so they can listen for where the strengths are in a community. They know where the community capital is-the wisdom, creativity, enthusiasm, a...

19. Application of crowdsourcing principles outside the virtual realm
(Concept/Polemics)

...a textbook example of a successful crowdsourcing business model implementation. The idea behind it is that community members submit their shirt designs into a voting process which is also done by t...

20. Two Models for Giving Effectively
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...d model of philanthropy, "more intimate and responsive than already existing-and breathtakingly useful-community foundations." BFJ volunteers pool their own resources and give money locall...

21. What Donors Need to Know
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...to the organization that receives it. But should you expect that the organization will solve poverty in your community because you gave it $10,000? No, it's not realistic to expect that-yet people...

22. Barter Networks and the Counter-Economy
(Concept/Anarchism)

...hange official money for LETS notes at a local bank or other business.  The majority of people in the community have no way of actually producing directly for the network and earning local cur...

23. What Is Art For?
(Concept/Anarchism)

...s, and gifts can remain gifts only if they are continually given away. This results in a kind of engine of community cohesion, in which objects create social, psychological, emotional and spiritual...

24. Tzedakah, Dan, Tithing, Dana : Perspectives on Giving from Four Religious Traditions
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...ious Traditions. (1993.)     Tzedakah In Jewish tradition, giving is meaningful only in a community context. That is why there is no word for charity in Hebrew. Instead, we speak of...

25. Personal Identity and Philanthropy
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...ss to are not "my" resources, but I am responsible for allowing them to move through me into the community in a thoughtful way. There, the passion and creativity of others puts them into ...

26. The Completely Decentralized City
(Concept/Anarchism)

... suggests that "we have no particular reason to believe that scale economies are an impediment to wide community choice." An analysis of economies of scale among St. Louis jurisdictions, ...

27. What Open Source can teach us about Spreadability
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...erally available. Participants in the culture can modify those products and redistribute them back into the community or other organizations. On the surface, this definition seems to align wit...

28. Thinking Forward
(Concept/Anarchism)

...ntation of shared programs), kinship (procreation,nurtuance, socialization, and household life), and culture/community (religion, ethnicity, race, and community identification generally) are each and ...

29. Sorting It All Out - What is Effective Giving
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...ppened as a result of your gift. It may be as simple as talking to the recipient or observing results in the community; or it might involve asking an organization what formal measures of effectiveness...

30. Direct Participation in Creativity
(Concept/Anarchism)

...ve it. And broadcasting equipment. And what they’re broadcasting [are] skits, written by people in the community, acted and directed by people in the community. So local people are presenting th...