Michel’s Substack: Fourth Generation Civilization

Michel’s Substack: Fourth Generation Civilization

The State of the Commons in 2025 : What is to be done ?

What should be the strategy of the commoners, in the context of the ‘long durée’ ? Part One: Historical Contextualization.

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Michel Bauwens
Jun 08, 2025
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This will again be a kind of longish article, in which we first place the commons, as an institution and as perennial human practice, in a longer historical arc, before looking at its present status, and why we should give it a prominent place in the next (post?)civilizational phase that is announcing itself.

Defining the Commons in a ‘digital’ ‘peer to …

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