I appreciate you want to understand. For a bit more research for yourself, I’m actually an anarcho-syndicalist. I’m also pretty unique even within that ideology, fwiw. What I imagine is a socialist library economy, in which the librarians are elected and the library is the primary method of distributing goods. The librarians are also responsible for managing and automating work and food production. I imagine a solarpunk society where communities are mostly self sustaining but also interdependent. I imagine a world that has no need for money.
I also imagine that unions represent both their communities and the workers within the community and that all managers within workplaces are elected. When the many various dealings happen between communities, I imagine something similar to haudenosaunee council meetings. Each community sends a proportional bargaining committee of their population, and the largest communities must reach consensus between and with each other before being decided on by and between consensus from the smaller communities. Tentative agreements must then be voted and ratified through simple majority by all communities to be considered participants in the contracts. I’m sure people will say “that’s too slow”. To that I say, you’ve never seen how quick a union can turn around an emergency meeting.
That’s what the library is for! Instead of buying things, you borrow from the community library. When you no longer need to use that thing, you return it to the library. If you need to own something, you get it from the library or you can make it/privately trade for it. As much labor as possible is automated, while the people performing labor do it out of passion and at their own pace, with the goods being manufactured for the library to distribute. Some of the automated manufacturing and 3d printed custom designs can be onsite and available to the public.
I appreciate you want to understand. For a bit more research for yourself, I’m actually an anarcho-syndicalist. I’m also pretty unique even within that ideology, fwiw. What I imagine is a socialist library economy, in which the librarians are elected and the library is the primary method of distributing goods. The librarians are also responsible for managing and automating work and food production. I imagine a solarpunk society where communities are mostly self sustaining but also interdependent. I imagine a world that has no need for money.
I also imagine that unions represent both their communities and the workers within the community and that all managers within workplaces are elected. When the many various dealings happen between communities, I imagine something similar to haudenosaunee council meetings. Each community sends a proportional bargaining committee of their population, and the largest communities must reach consensus between and with each other before being decided on by and between consensus from the smaller communities. Tentative agreements must then be voted and ratified through simple majority by all communities to be considered participants in the contracts. I’m sure people will say “that’s too slow”. To that I say, you’ve never seen how quick a union can turn around an emergency meeting.
Very interesting, thank you for the write-up! Out of curiosity, how does a moneyless society work?
Just I do you solids, you do me solids? How does a moneyless society allow trade if one party doesn’t have any goods the other party wants?
That’s what the library is for! Instead of buying things, you borrow from the community library. When you no longer need to use that thing, you return it to the library. If you need to own something, you get it from the library or you can make it/privately trade for it. As much labor as possible is automated, while the people performing labor do it out of passion and at their own pace, with the goods being manufactured for the library to distribute. Some of the automated manufacturing and 3d printed custom designs can be onsite and available to the public.
Interesting! It’s a cool concept for sure