Is there an explicitly cooperative FOSS crowdfunding solution?
Or does it need to be created? Most seem to rely on direct donations to individuals (patreon, liberapay) or halfassed, symbolic methods/gestures (opencollective)
The real solution would be a technologically cooperative (each member in the group registers their acc to a ledger and gets auto-payed every time a donation is received to the co-op), free software licensed, with as little layers of mediation as possible.
Peertube is P2P, free software
Mastodon is flooded with anarchists, free software
Lemmy admins are MLs, free software
Fediverse is both integrating and branching relevant projects with each other
Amazon Labor Union (Amazon is owner of Twitch) has ballooned
Matrix has become normalized for development, so has alternatives to Github
Activists use Signal and not WhatApp anymore
With each instance of big tech bourgeois repression the cyberspatial zone of counterpower improves more in quality and quantity
Lay the economic brick on the socialist path, comrades
>>20485>Muh blockchainDid I say that?
Also one of the central problems with blockchain currencies so far is that
no one of them have fucking even attempted a cooperative model yet, it's all just the same iteration of the same classically liberal currency mechanism
>>20486just put your IBAN account number up and people can send money to you
So that my central bank can shut my account down just like any other finance / social media corporation shuts down any dissent? What are you, a liberal?
>Also muh cooperatives>citing Cockshott where it isn't valid He also said cooperatives were a great transitional measure. So did Marx.
To put the confusion to rest ITT with reference to sources:
Cockshott arguing cooperatives as a valid tactic prior to planning (image related): >The Limits of Market Socialism, @23:50https://youtu.be/XyxnG2ck-sw**Then subsequently, with the revolutionary seizure of power by the proletariat,
he advocates for a process of whole national cooperativization (expropriation of the bourgeoisie), syndication (econo-political organization of the whole working class), and finally abolition of money (furthest blow toward capitalism yet, uniquely enabled by our contemporary material and social conditions in the 21st century) through the cybernetization of use value and ushering in communization, lower-phase, to adequately stave off counterrevolutionary success both internally and externally.**
>The Limits of Market Socialism @23:50https://youtu.be/XyxnG2ck-swAnd finally:
>We acknowledge the co-operative movement as one of the transforming forces of the present society based upon class antagonism. Its great merit is to practically show, that the present pauperising, and despotic system of the subordination of labour to capital can be superseded by the republican and beneficent system of the association of free and equal producers.- Karl Marx, The First International, 1866
>>20496You realize the extended quote didn't disqualify anything advanced so far right?
We are not around the corner of a communist revolution currently anywhere in the anglophone/west. The best we can do is to force the envelope where progressive movements have carved out a path, just like OP is pointing to: progressive elements taking power into their own hands in the sphere of technological labor.
>We recommend to the working men to embark in co-operative production rather than in co-operative stores.cooperative production is exactly what the tech workers in question are doing, just voluntarily, without the compensation it's worth, without security, always at risk of going up in thin air due to trouble with their main source of income (big tech employment/unemployment).
Also how come I get the feeling you've never been part of the day-to-day struggles of an actual communist party? How do
you fundraise? Because we fundraise with cooperatives. Let me hear the big leaps forward in terms of sustaining your org, because I doubt you're the type that robs banks (and even then, bank robbing is hardly a stable/ever-sustainable source of revenue, even if it's doable in a few select scenarios).
>>20498the two main maintainers for the lemmy code and the operators for lemmy.ml are marxist-leninists
there's also the lemmygrad.ml instance which is explicitly marxist-leninist
>>20506A country like Bolivia or Venezuela maybe?
I know that imperialist west social democratic governments passed some laws making it easier for their co-ops, but we wouldn't want to base there for reasons already mentioned (imperialist government, bound to bend over backwards in order to make it frustrate the transition I mentioned here
>>20493 )
But that risk may be considerably reduced when the country in question already chooses to integrate into an alliance like ALBA-TCP, which includes a country like Cuba.
i'm, in this year, writing my university dissertation about donations systems for opensource developers, focused more on the points you said, like bulk donations rather than individual donations.
i believe this can work in FLOSS development or other highly specific areas, not everything, so i dont believe for sure in the so-called market socialism.
my reasons for believing that approach can work in floss is that software development does not need tons of constant capital, it basically needs computers and internet access what everyone already has, doing developement or not.
you just need to cover the sallaries of open source developers, and my sollution of bulk donations would help normies to donate, they dont need to know especific people to donate (tough having this option is good too).
crypto doesnot work simply because is not a good currency. it takes too much time to do transactions, and as that cant be used to buy food (the most important point of donating). although i like the open source and flexibility to do bulk transfers from crypto.
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