I think it’s the closest to anti-work life. I’ve been working to create a network of people and communities living without money. To show people an alternative system. A moneyless society.
Not terribly much, no, but knock yourself out. Voluntaristic gift economies don’t scale and don’t threaten capitalist state.
The Black Panther’s Free Breakfast Program for Children wasn’t a gift economy project but a mass line project, a dual power project, a political education & organizing project.
I would love it as it would be so much more efficient. Part of hoarding is people thinking they need something just in case. If they know they always have access then they don’t need to use up the space they are at and often times they rarely if ever have used it. Like I have a bunch of hand tools but I only use any particular one once in a great while but when you need it you need it. Only problem I can see is liability and people not caring for what they borrow.
Yes!
Changing how the economy works is difficult though. Too many interests involved. If any idea is sufficiently successful, it’s harshly campaigned against. If an attempt is made to implement it, it’s met with violence. And if lucky enough to be realized, get ready for hybrid warfare.
No. I think it’s fine, but not a real alternative to Capitalism. It seems like the sort of thing developed by an anticapitalist who accepts the Capitalist framing of history (“Capitalism is just when you trade things or have money”).
I would classify this sort of thing as Ultra-Leftist - a movement seeking to skip the necessary steps in the development of Capitalism into Socialism and Socialism into Communism by just “doing Communism” at the local community level and saying “Well if everyone just did it, we’d be living in a Communist Utopia!”
There is no skipping the steps. The abolition of work is the final step, not the first.
You might like this article about additive economics, although imo it would only be viable in sectors where there is no longer scarcity.
