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SOLCOM International

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We are doing research on 2 important elements of a new reality: an economy of values instead of value and a culture of sharing resources

Website: http://solcomint.ning.com
Group Type: Partnering Organizations
Members: 8
Latest Activity: Feb 5, 2011

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Solidarity Economy aims at a restructuring of our mode of production and our lifestyles. Solidarity Economy satisfies concrete needs of human life by fostering societal self-realisation. It delegitimizes the motive of profit production, being able even to transcend the coercion of "covering costs". It's sole constraint is ecological in nature. A good life for all is it's only benchmark.

Commons are a nourishing matrix, where social recognition of everyone goes without saying, and free access to the wealth of relations is real. Commons are the intellectual and material basis of Solidarity Economy, reaching beyond single enterprises and niches. Commons are Solidarity Economy's best expression and it's most important product.

This forum tries to bring Solidarity Economy and the Commons together, reflecting practical projects, discussing strategic interventions, setting agendas. The perspective of such a type of "activist research" is to develop a Solidarity Economy starting from projects organized according to the principles of self-management, egalitarian cooperation and solidarity towards society.

German Language Forum is here: http://transitionaustria.ning.com/group/solcom

Interesting Links:
* http://solecopedia.org/ Solecopedia, a space for sharing and disseminating social and solidarity economy concepts and practices, available in 7 languages.

Discussion Forum

Why is there no international movement promoting Solidarity Economy the way Transition does?

Started by Franz Nahrada. Last reply by David Eggleton Jan 26, 2011. 8 Replies 0 Likes

Although there is considerable effort and support towards solidarity economy, it is my fear that it falls behind the ease and scope that the transition movement has shown.There is no core set of…Continue

Maptivism around the world

Started by Franz Nahrada. Last reply by Franz Nahrada Sep 14, 2010. 1 Reply 0 Likes

One of the Components of Solidarity Economics is the Mapping of Resources made available for common use or essential for a local economy.see this presentation.…Continue

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Comment by Jen Mazer on February 5, 2011 at 1:36am: Hi Franz I may be interested in joining Solcom but can't seemto find the link anywhere. Is it true one has to be invited? If so, could you invite me?

Thanks, Jen

Comment by Franz Nahrada on January 30, 2011 at 1:38pm: / re: last post/ that said, everybody should nevertheless watch Zeitgeist Moving Forward. Its a great work.

Comment by Franz Nahrada on January 30, 2011 at 1:19am: Jen, Solidarity Economy and Commons do belong together, but are still different perspectives. Solidarity Economics is more about how independent economic actors coordinate and bring their values into their economic action, whilst the commons is about mutual dependency on resources that need to be taken care of by common action. Its a slight difference, but enough to create even different cultures. We want to unify the cultures here. There are more cultures: As you say, local money, but also seemengly opposing demonetization, there is transition, etc. - Here is an emerging reality with what I would call patterns in Christopher Alexanders sense. None of them is "right" or "wrong" or even "primordial". Its more about learning to understand the potentials, the strengthes and weaknesses of all these patterns.

If you like, one could say that instead of a big beneficial dictatorship-machine like in the current version of the Zeitgeist movie, our only chance is an emergence of cultures around patterns that succeed in learning about their collaborative power.

Comment by Jen Mazer on January 30, 2011 at 1:04am: Whoops! Answered too fast. I liked the Solcepedia link.

Comment by Jen Mazer on January 30, 2011 at 12:38am: Hi Franz,

Is this more about local money, creative commons, or both? Either way I

understand...

Comment by Les Squires on August 13, 2010 at 9:04am: Welcome Franz and welcome SOLCOM. "... an economy of values instead of value and a culture of sharing resources..." -- perfect! Transition meet SOLCOM; SOLCOM meet Transition.