How might we...
- Practice/Emergence: How might we practice the five elements?
- What do we mean by being shaped and framed by a capitalist context; approach; or concept?
- How might we learn from the experiences and practices of communities that have explored and practiced aligning resources deployment with equity and justice outside of the capitalist framework?
- What do we mean by being shaped and framed by a capitalist context; approach; or concept?
Hypothesis
If we engage with past experiences and practices anti-capitalist framework, then we be clearer on what we want to explore and what the field may be interested in exploring.
Design
- We will look for examples of “anti-capitalist” and/or values aligned work in social justice organizations or networks
- We will seek to understand how a few non-capitalist models think about or define investment and returns (for ex, socialism)
What we will do: Each of us will either conduct 1-2 interviews or read a few articles/documents that can surface examples or learnings of other models.
Metrics
Minimum Success:
- Clearer questions to figure out what is our possible destination (in terms of aligning resources with values) given our constraints and where the pathway to that destination may lie.
- Like we may have a destination. We may not know the route we are taking, but that we have a destination.
- Clarity about why these conversations matter. What is the desired destination we share.
Epic Success:
- We have a destination, pathway, and all the rest stops and guideposts figured out.
- Low hiker. I would be super happy if we had the best guidebook assembled to tell us what direction to go in. having the lonely planet guide to how to get there.
Failure:
- There is no values aligned destination or pathway.
- Our assumption that our current investment strategy is not aligned with our values of justice and equity. So failure is that we have no options.
- Learn are we already in failure b/c of how change elemental works/structured in capitalist society?
Learnings
- Symptom of the transition that we are in, one foot is in capitalism, other foot is searching for what’s next, in so many ways, we are so deeply connected from money system, whether it’s buying things from worker coop, buying from credit union, but all things are still part of system
- Decisions made from scarcity not abundance mindset
- What’s possible if decisions are proportionally made by those most impacted by the decisions
- It is about culture change, not just systems change
- What are the small changes that start to get us across the bridge to a new model
- Includes mindset shifts
Decisions
We will start a new experiment where each commit to one example of how we have taken one step to build community and one way to slow down, whether its money, activity, etc DO something that’s sticky around this time of the year. Victoria says she’s not doing Xmas cards & instead doing phone calls to build community.
Questions
What is the imagination learning we could lean into in addition to learning from others?