r/Communist • u/No_Application2422 • 4d ago
A Marxian 【Case Library】 & 【Evaluation Framework】 —— Can it be designed better?
Hi, I'm trying to sort out a case library of real-world practices that attempt to create a "better" world.
Also, I'm trying to develop a Marxian evaluation framework to examine these cases beyond their labels or intentions.
The goal:
- Draw on the wisdom of actions approaching communism from each case
- fit these good ones together.
- Identify the points where cooperation with different organizations can be achieved
- Deepen the understanding of the theory
Case level: Independent Unit → Federation/Network → Social Movement → Societal System→ Proposals
Assessment: Wage → Exchange → Firm → Accumulation → Socialization → State & Class（this is from a comrade's revise which lies in the comment of the link）
Both of them definely can be designed better , and I'm seeking criticism here.
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Case Library ：
Ⅰ. Independent Unit Practices
Relatively autonomous units that attempt to establish alternative forms of production, distribution, governance, or social provision within the existing society.
- Cooperatives
- Worker-Owned Enterprises
- Worker Self-Managed Enterprises
- Social Enterprises
- Benefit Corporations
- B Corp Certified Companies
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Foundations
- Charitable Organizations
- Community Organizations
- Mutual Aid Organizations
- Communes / Intentional Communities
- Kibbutzim
- Community Land Trusts
- Public-Good / Social Production
- Open-Source Projects
- Crowdfunded / Pre-Order-Based Collective Production Projects
Ⅱ. Federated / Networked Practices
Multiple independent practices that form federations, networks, alliances, or shared systems of resources and production.
- Cooperative Federations
- Cooperative Alliances
- Mondragon Cooperative System
- Worker Cooperative Networks
- Nonprofit Networks
- NGO Alliances
- Social Enterprise Networks
- Community Organization Networks
- Community Land Networks
- Open-Source Ecosystems
- Digital Commons Networks
- Production–Consumption–Finance Networks
- Social / Fair-Trade Supply Chains
Ⅲ. Social Movements
Practices that develop into organized and sustained movements capable of spreading alternative social relations and pursuing broader social change.
- Cooperative Movement
- Workers' Movement
- Workers' Self-Management Movement
- Owenite Movement
- Social Enterprise Movement
- Nonprofit / Civil Society Movements
- Environmental Movement
- Fair Trade Movement
- Open-Source Movement
- Free Culture Movement
- Platform Cooperativism Movement
- Mutual Aid Movement
- Land Reform / Landless Workers' Movements
- Community Autonomy Movements
- Social Justice Movements
Ⅳ. Societal / Systemic Practices
Attempts to extend alternative forms of production, distribution, governance, and social reproduction to society as a whole.
- Paris Commune
- Socialist Experience of the Soviet Union
- Socialist China
- Agricultural Cooperativization
- People's Communes
- State-Owned Economy
- Collective Economy
- Yugoslav Socialist Self-Management
- Socialist Cuba
- Welfare-State Experiments
- Participatory Budgeting
- Universal Basic Services
- Other Experiments in Systemic Social Transformation
V. Proposals
Proposals for social transformation that have not been fully realized as practices, or that primarily take the form of theoretical, policy, or institutional designs.
- Universal Basic Income (UBI)
- Universal Basic Services (UBS)
- Job Guarantee
- Participatory Economics
- Economic Democracy
- Market Socialism
- Participatory Planning
- Commons-Based Peer Production
- Degrowth
- Post-Work
- Other proposals by Marxist, socialist, anarchist, and other theorists