Global Commons

Abstract

This chapter deals with the ‘Global Commons’ scenario which celebrates the hypothetical model of mature peer production. Advocates of this scenario argue that the Commons should be created and fought for on a global scale. Though production is distributed and therefore facilitated at the local level, the resulting micro-factories are considered as essentially networked on a global scale, profiting from the mutualized global cooperation both on the design of the product, and on the improvement of the common machinery. Political and social mobilization, on regional, national and transnational scale, is seen as part of the struggle for the transformation of institutions. According to Kostakis and Bauwens, this scenario does not take social regression as given, and believes in sustainable abundance for the whole of humanity.