Commons Against Capitalism (2015) (original) (raw)

2015, The Politics of Ecosocialism - Transforming welfare, Edited by Kajsa Borgnäs, Teppo Eskelinen, Johanna Perkiö, Rikard Warlenius

In this chapter, I will first introduce the concept of commons as a historical and contemporary phenomenon. Then I will analyse the importance of the commons in Marx’s thinking on ecology, and the dynamic role that the commons has in the understanding of class struggle in capitalism. Third, I will analyse the possibilities of the process of commonification departing from the foundations of the Nordic welfare state model. In the two concluding sections, I will map the political possibilities for an eco-socialist transformation strategy through promotion of the commons.