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Sharing Land , Work and Craft
Chris Smaje
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How we can meet the challenges of our eld by move away from the political and economic philosophies of both the remaining and proper to a more equitable re - system of society , economy , domain and food production , labor by the local residential district rather than a fundamental politics .
Today , society and governance are still demand what our country can render , and in what amount . They do so because in a sense we are still living in conquest - based societies . farming thinker Chris Smaje opens this account book by draw an arrest innovative latitude to Viking raiding , trading and enslave societies and the Ragnarok they look then of striking climate change and social collapse .
So , to meet these advanced crises , Chris postulate us to seem beyond the current discourse of capitalism versus chaos , and indeed the dualism of ‘ country versus market ’ and the ‘ commonwealth with the market ’ , both of which has go bad us .
Instead , Chris explores a world where we live deadening lives more immersed in local bionomics . Where our present Viking age has inflicted a thorough alienation from lieu and local living , Chris proposes other model of collective organization , where land and uppercase are seen as a common trade good that involves a widespread and inviolable redistribution . These ideas are the basic principle connect with distributism – broadly , that issues should be dealt with at the most immediate or local level practicable and governing body , wherever possible , should be bottom - up . There should also be a moral saving founded in nonesuch of justice .
employment and production should rest on commitments light upon in a community rather than mass in a market . There should be a conception of shared coarse good , of what life is for . Ultimately , we should build a common sense of future possibleness around local ecological societies dedicated to human and ecological wellbeing .
Much of the global harm to the surround has arisen not because citizenry were there in the landscape , but because they were n’t . It ’s prison term to hospice contemporaneousness and ramp up a gullible Earth rising . In this book , Chris discuss what this company and landscape might face like in the near future and longer term .
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