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@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-25 09:31:47

I have long lived by the principles of community, voluntary cooperation, and decentralized member-driven governance. Before knowing the term anarcho-syndicalism, I often imagined unions as truly democratic organizations, where delegates are elected and revocable at any moment, rooted in direct workers’ self-management and direct participation in controlling economic and social life, independent from both state authority and capitalist ownership.
Discovering anarcho-syndicalism about a…

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-11-18 15:39:46

Great comment by @…:
«[…] private institutions are fundamentally extractive. Decisions are made on the basis of profit or some similar self-serving motivation. They provide as little as possible for the revenue they receive. Public institutions, by contrast, are fundamentally constructive. They exist to promote the social good or (if we believe Mark Carney) s…

OLDaily (@oldaily@mastodon.social)
Profit, Education, and Student Grants | HESA #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78493 Alex Usher argues against banning Canada Student Financial Assistance Program (CSFAP) grants to students attending for-profit institutions. Here's the argument, in a (tiny) nutshell: "it implies that ownership is the cause of bad results. And, frankly, I am not sure this is true." And poof! The entire left of the political spectrum has disappeared in a single sentence.

@yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-11-13 19:14:48

A fantastic initiative to bring grass rots local venues in England into self-ownership, including the awesome Gut Level in Sheffield - 1 day left on the crowd fund
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/own-our-ve

Own Our Venues
An exciting opportunity for the live music community to own & protect UK Music Venues. Total includes £650k of loans approved in principle.