Two and a half years ago, during the (first) International Commons Conference in Berlin, I collected some quotes that I considered insightful or funny. This time, at the Economics and the Commons Conference, I did it again.
Silke Helfrich [DE]:
- The commons as institutions are older than any state in the world.
- Every commons has a material basis. Every commons needs energy, and every commoner needs food. And all the natural commons require knowledge. We have to know how to cultivate a commons. So every commons is a physical commons and a knowledge commons.
- We should wonder whether the commons should really be open to everyone, including the enclosers.
- The commons does not scale up but rather crystallizes, like a crystal of atoms, into a connected pattern. The commons, like crystals, grow into all directions.
- (mehr …)
The following paper was written for the 

1. Wenn wir an Arbeit und Produktion denken, sehen wir Peers, die Dateien verteilen, Beiträge zu Projekten leisten, auf Anstöße reagieren. Wir ärgern uns über die Ausbeutung der Arbeitenden und die Kapitalisierung der Arbeit.
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