#solarpunk

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Capítulo 781: Cuup

Cuando vimos el corporativismo prometí que hablaríamos del sistema cooperativista, que tiene más bien poco que ver, más allá de ser otra opción económica para el sistema.

El cooperativismo es un sistema que puede autocontenerse, por lo que no choca con otros sistemas. Así que podemos tener cooperativas dentro de sistemas comunistas o capitalistas sin ningún problema.
Aunque claro, si fuese EL sistema estatal, tal vez habría ciertos conceptos diferentes en toda la organización.

El cooperativismo destaca porque hay una asociación en la cual las partes implicadas entran en una relación de solidaridad, equidad y trabajo mutuo. Se usan modelos de gestión, democráticos normalmente, para definir las actuaciones del grupo.

El objetivo es que todo el mundo salga ganando. Hay cooperativas desiguales en las que el reparto es proporcional a la parte que se adhiere a la cooperativa, pero nunca a los beneficios que genera.
Esto quiere decir que si yo cultivo dos parcelas y tú otras dos y resulta que mi cosecha se pierde por enfermedad, lo que se produce en la tuya se reparte para ambas personas.
En un caso de equivalencia si yo participo con tres campos y tú uno, los beneficios se reparten 3/4 para mí y 1/4 para tí.

Normalmente en nuestro sistema capitalista existe mucho en el ámbito rural para que no haya que dedicar tanto dinero para maquinaria y modernización.
Es decir, si yo tengo ocho hectáreas de cereal y tú tres, nos juntamos para que podamos comprar un tractor, construyamos un silo, negociemos precios con especuladores desde una posición más fuerte...

El cooperativismo puede extenderse también a la parte consumidora. Una cooperativa de consumo consigue cosas para quienes formen parte ella basados en los mismos principios.
Cómo mejor funcionan ambos sistemas es conectando cooperativismo de consumo y de producción.

Ahora vamos a ver lo que podemos extrapolar con esto.
Partamos del modelo Antiguo Régimen gremial que estaba siendo adelantado por la derecha por la iniciativa privada del individuo que quiere saltarse la normativa del gremio para ganar más. Esa gente va a tope con cambiar el modelo de estado y en base a ello, de economía.
Cuando toca reconfigurar el estado, el liberalismo va a tumba abierta. Por ello, al nombrar las primeras medidas de las revoluciones liberales que se dieron por todos lados, se habla de la prohibición de la gremios, pese a que muchas veces no se ahonda en el motivo (aspecto que es crucial para el cambio de paradigma económico). Porque no se pide una reconfiguración que acabe derivando en un corporativismo.
No.
Aquí plutocracia de la buena.

Imaginemos que eso no hubiera sido así. Imaginemos que el poder del antiguo régimen hubiera resistido el embate burgués.
Imaginemos también que esa subversión que lo hizo caer de manera definitiva empezase en lo rural; en un mundo en el cual el campesinado hubiera empezado a aunar fuerzas aprovechando reformas fisiocráticas.
Imaginemos que empiezan a crear cooperativas que empiezan a ser clave para alimentar a los gremios y manufacturas estatales.
Imaginemos que esas cooperativas gastan el benéfico en modernizar el campo y luego, por contagio, la ciudad.
Imaginemos que cuando el pueblo se vuelve a alzar por una soberanía lo hacen desde la cooperación y no desde el individuo.
Imaginemos.
O también podemos crear.

Si nos da mucha pereza la historia alternativa, siempre podemos llevar a cabo iniciativas cooperativas en los mundos de #fantasía.
Es un modelo muy poco explotado a gran escala. En #CiFi, se usa. Es un tipo de modelo que va muy de la mano de la idea del #solarpunk, aunque se llame de otra manera.
Cada vez que alguien dice que el problema no está solo en cómo se produce, sino que también en cómo se consume, está hablando de cooperativismo.

Así que la próxima vez que alguien os diga:
«¿Y qué hacemos sin el capitalismo? ¿Nos hacemos comunistas?» A parte de responder: ¿por qué no? Podemos poner dos modelos más sobre la mesa: corporativismo y cooperativismo.
A ver con qué cara se queda.

Cuídense.

I feel a little bit foolish, I run a solar powered server which provides a #mastodon instance, a #bittorrent client and a #gitea server. During the winter it's only online for fairly short periods of time depending on the sun.
Ive got some markdown files on the gitea server which I edit using the website, I therefore have to wait for the sunshine before i can do this, it can be a little annoying if the timing doesn't line up with my day schedule.

I have only just clicked that it's #git so I can clone to my laptop, edit to my hearts content and then push it back when the server is online. Honestly completely forgot this key function. Git (or other similar systems) are ideal for a #solarpunk #frugalcomputing approach, the server doesn't need to be online all day as it's not actually doing much in between, I can work separately. I wonder if this model could be applied to our parts of our day to day work

What is Solarpunk - An Intro with resources:

So solarpunk is an artistic aesthetic, literary genre, and social activism.

The artistic aesthetic tends to focus on the elements of solarpunk (discussed later) in an uplifting, colorful, and hopeful presentation. While it has no set limitations, popular aesthetics are art nouveau and studio ghibli styles.

The literary genre is "protopia" in style. It shows a pragmatic utopia while addressing present day social concerns. Some of it shows the ideal within a hopepunk and/or cozycore plot. Others have higher conflict and show the current social concerns being addressed and remediated.

The social activism side seeks to bring about that protopia world in the present day. The focus is to bring about a post-scarcity world where everyone has the basics of life covered while emphasizing increasing time for rest, luxury, the arts, culture, and community.

While these themes are covered in other movements (many of which are not opposed and work well with solarpunk), the solarpunks themselves seek to use modern day (and near future) technology to assist in this post-scarcity world. Technologies such as automation, renewable energies, and economies of scale - currently utilized by various ruling classes - to instead be used by the working class. Further efforts are made within degrowth (removing technology for technologies sake, and consumption for consumption's sake).

While not solely limited to anarchic politics, many of the approaches are non-hierarchical in nature and when they are hierarchical, they often focus on local political structures, decentralized, and distributed, with cooperation between various local groups for a national and inter-national co-op structure.

Long and short, solarpunks were tired of being warned of the present dystopia of cyberpunk without solutions to overcome that dystopia. They yearned for positive stories and art that showed a direction to pursue. And they wanted to act in the now to bring about that change.

Solarpunk is not the only movement towards protopia and progressive social change. And it should not be the only movement. But it adds its take on how to approach remediating current social and environmental and material crises.

The areas of focus are (but not limited to):

Post-scarcity: Food, Water, Shelter, Healthcare, Education, Transportation, and Energy (energy is focused on renewables, efficiencies, and lower energy requirements)

Arts, beauty, aesthetics, culture

Rest, leisure, community bonds, and protection for individual rights

Some good places to start are:

- What is Solarpunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHI61GHNGJM
- Mutual Aid by Dean Spade: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dean-spade-mutual-aid
- Solarpunk Manifesto (not the only one and by no means authoritative, but something to muse on): https://iandennismiller.github.io/solarpunk/manifesto/english.html
- Solarpunk Notes Toward a Manifesto (more voices are better than one): https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/2014/09/solarpunk-notes-toward-a-manifesto/
- Solarpunk: A Reference Guide: https://medium.com/solarpunks/solarpunk-a-reference-guide-8bcf18871965
- Solarpunk Lemmy Instance: https://slrpnk.net/
- Solarpunk Discord Server: https://discord.gg/C76x3bWXEA

Some sample solarpunk projects:
- Seed Libraries, Tool Libraries, Library Economy, Libraries in general
- Community Gardens, Community Farms & Ranches, Backyard / Apartment Gardens
- Community Free Fridges & Pantries, Peer-to-peer food exchanges, community kitchens and restaurants
- Maker Spaces, home fabrication - cnc machines, 3d printers, sewing and textiles, home welding, home carpentry
- Repair Cafes, Right-to-Repair, making higher quality items that last a long time and can be maintained
- Community and Peer to Peer support and mental healthcare, mutual aid groups, community support and protection groups
- Solar and wind and other renewable energy at a small scale, localized decentralized energy grids, community prep and resiliency
- Art and literature and music and dance.
- Tenant co-ops, removing shelter and homes as an asset class, "non-profit" housing development
- Community Health Insurance schemes, "Non-profit" insurance. Direct negotiation with local doctors, specialists, etc.
- Public Transit, Trains, Subways, Light Rail, Bicycles, Personal Electric Vehicles (PEVs), pedestrian access, city design and planning

Beware:
Green Washing - Just cause its pretty doesn't mean its sustainable or solarpunk or non-exploitative.
Beware Capitalist Co-option - They like to sell back everything, including the concept of tearing down Capitalism
- Compare this advertisement that looks like solarpunk: Dear Alice by Chiboni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Ng5ZvrDm4
- To the "decommodified" version (pay attention to how they changed the name from "Donations" to "Commons" - moving away from capitalist propaganda of "charity" and into an actual mutual aid approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqJJktxCY9U

Solarpunk is a vibrant and living philosophy, style, and approach. It's not the end all be all and its not meant to be the end all be all. It has it's issues and legitimate criticism. But its an approach that generates hope and it committed to dealing with actual issues using actual pragmatic solutions within the constraint of actual ethics.

During a time when we're all beat down and exhausted and fearful - solarpunk pushes back and says Fuck That. I'm going to live. I'm going to be happy. And I'm going to work to ensure that everyone else lives and is happy.

#solarPunk #mutualAid