Jacob Stringer is a housing activist, co-operator and occasional journalist. His experience in collective organising has given him an enduring interest in organisational form and political narratives. Follow his writing at Preorg.org: Notes on organising on Planet Earth
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Let’s Own Everything Together
Why have I begun talking about ownership? It isn’t the usual language of making democracies work, except in that vague and dishonest usage where we are encouraged to ‘feel ownership’ of decisions made by others. It feels like we have not had a thorough, open-minded discussion about ownership for a long time. Doing so might begin to reveal how new institutions can move us beyond the current system failures.
October 25, 2017
