Reflections on the Contradictions of the Commons

Vangelis Papadimitropoulos

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2018, vol. 50, issue 2, 317-331

Abstract: The Commons are an emerging economic anti-paradigm that favor decentralization over central control, self-management over hierarchy, transparency over privacy, and sustainability over growth at all costs. But the Commons are still in their infancy, and they face several contradictions, as they develop in mutual dependence with capitalism. This article is an attempt to tackle these contradictions by building on a number of proposals already presented by Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis, Stefan Meretz, and Jacob Rigi.

Keywords: peer-to-peer production; the Commons; multistakeholder cooperative; neo-feudal cognitive capitalism; open cooperativism; partner state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O P (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613417735660

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