{"id":37839,"date":"2018-09-16T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37839"},"modified":"2018-09-16T07:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T12:21:00","slug":"seven-ways-to-build-the-solidarity-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37839","title":{"rendered":"Seven ways to build the solidarity economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven ways to build the solidarity economy<\/a><\/h3>\n
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We can transform capitalism by encouraging the \u2018better angels of our nature.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Credit: Flickr\/Cogdogblog<\/a>. CC BY 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The solidarity economy is a global movement to build a post-capitalist world that puts people and planet front and center, rather than the pursuit of blind growth and profit maximization. It isn\u2019t a blueprint but a framework that includes a broad range of economic practices that align with its values: solidarity, participatory democracy, equity in every dimension including race, class and gender, sustainability and pluralism, which means that it can\u2019t be a one-size-fits all approach. Nevertheless, the notion of buen vivir,<\/em> or living well and in harmony with nature and each other permeates everything the movement does.<\/p>\n

Some of these practices are old and some are new; some are mainstream and others are \u2018alternative.\u2019 Solidarity economy practices exist in every sector of the economy: production, distribution and exchange, consumption, finance and governance\/state. People often think about cooperatives and credit unions which are collectively owned and managed by their members, but they are just one example. Others include community land trusts, participatory budgeting, social currencies, time banks, peer lending, barter systems, gift exchange, community gardens, ideas around \u2018the commons,\u2019 some kinds of fair trade and the sharing economy, and non-monetized care work.<\/p>\n

The idea of the solidarity economy is to build on and knit together all of these practices in order to transform capitalism by lifting up and encouraging the \u2018better angels of our nature.\u2019 Rather than making a virtue out of the pursuit of calculated self-interest, profit maximization, and competition\u2014the things that underpin capitalism\u2014this economy nurtures our capacity for solidarity, cooperation, reciprocity, mutual aid, altruism, caring, sharing, compassion and love. Increasingly, research across many disciplines has shown that we are hard wired to cooperate\u2014that in fact, the survival of the human species has depended on our ability to work together.<\/p>\n

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Seven ways to build the solidarity economy We can transform capitalism by encouraging the \u2018better angels of our nature.\u2019 Credit: Flickr\/Cogdogblog. CC BY 2.0. The solidarity economy is a global movement to build a post-capitalist world that puts people and planet front and center, rather than the pursuit of blind growth and profit maximization. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[204,21683,391,10696,6414,15671,769],"class_list":["post-37839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-survival-2","tag-democracy","tag-emily-kawano","tag-growth","tag-open-democracy","tag-post-capitalism","tag-solidarity-economy","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37840,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37839\/revisions\/37840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}