it’s when people get together and say, we want to manage the shared wealth for our mutual benefit and steward it properly to sustain it.

the commons as a relational social organism

The idea that people could actually self-organize durable arrangements for managing their own resources and that this paradigm of social governance could generate immense value, well, it seems either utopian or communistic, or at the very least, impractical. The idea that the commons could be a vehicle for social and political emancipation and... See more