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  1. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    What Evangelicals Can Teach Us About Organizing

    The most important book most leftists have never read

    "Roughly three decades ago, evangelicals like Warren systematized and scaled up organizing for our atomized era. The Left, by contrast, is still searching for a model. With a few partial exceptions, contemporary American liberals and radicals haven’t yet figured out how to build durable membership organizations capable of recruiting, retaining, and developing large numbers of people, beyond a small core of paid staff or self-selecting activists. We’re good at big moments like marches, viral campaigns, rallies, and the occasional electoral upset. We’re much worse at turning those moments into organizations that last—and grow."

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #CommunitariumProject

    laborpolitics.com/p/what-evang

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #communitariumproject
  2. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    Exit, Voice, and What Comes After

    Albert Hirschman’s "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty" has become one of those books whose central distinction long ago escaped the book itself. When an organization or institution begins to fail us, we can leave it, or remain and try to change it. Loyalty complicates the relationship between those possibilities by holding exit at bay and giving voice more time and incentive to work.

    But what happens when getting the institution back on the track is not the objective...because the track itself has become the problem? There seems to be a difference between trying to make an institution behave differently and trying to make a different institutional arrangement possible.

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #RedefiningSocialism

    seizethemeans.communitarium.or

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #redefiningsocialism
  3. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    DSA: The Iron Is Hot—Toward a Participant-Built Online Socialist Campus

    Part 2.1: Campus, Communitarium, Commons

    A collection of online tools, however well chosen, would not by itself create the kind of community being proposed.

    The deeper starting point would be a perception among prospective members that they already share something important: broadly similar purposes, a generally compatible ethos, and an interest in living out at least some of those commitments together.

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #CommunitariumProject

    seizethemeans.communitarium.or

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #communitariumproject
  4. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    Socialist Intelligence

    ...the apparently solitary intelligence of the individual is already populated by others.

    It may therefore be worth asking whether we have mistaken the point at which intelligence becomes visible for the place where intelligence is produced.

    Perhaps intelligence does not reside wholly inside the individual. Perhaps much of what we call intelligence arises among differentiated beings, through their relations, within the shared worlds they become capable of inhabiting together.

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    seizethemeans.communitarium.or

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  5. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    Socialism Is Being Defended Too Narrowly

    Socialism is having a moment — Trump can't stop saying "communism," Vance is fretting about it on Rogan, and DSA keeps winning primaries. But the defense being mounted by its friends is oddly small: our programs poll well, and unlike Trump we actually mean them. That makes socialism into competent, sincere liberalism — one honest Democrat away from redundant.

    G. A. Cohen's camping trip is the corrective. Socialism isn't only a claim about who owns what. It's a claim about community — a thing the nineteenth-century theorists could take for granted and we can't, because it's been taken from us.

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #DSA
    #TheCommunitariumProject

    seizethemeans.communitarium.or

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #dsa #thecommunitariumproject
  6. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    ‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?

    These garments may express dissent, and they may sometimes hinder recognition software. But that does not make them collective resistance.

    They are private consumer choices made by isolated individuals, not coordinated action by people who have built the capacity to act together. Calling the trend “collective” encourages a politically disabling fantasy: that enough personal gestures will eventually add up to power on their own.

    Capitalist realism depends on that confusion. It lets people experience themselves as resistant without confronting their fragmentation or building organizations, strategy, and institutions. The surveillance apparatus remains organized, adaptive, and well funded; the supposed resistance remains individualized, symbolic, and available for purchase.

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #CommunitariumProject

    theguardian.com/fashion/2026/j

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #communitariumproject
  7. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    I've posted an open letter to #MayorMamdani's newly created Office of Mass Engagement urging that “mass engagement” mean more than better public-input collection.

    The post argues for an open-source, federated civic infrastructure (that expands beyond the narrow social-posting scope much of the #Fediverse still reproduces): locally grounded civic commons for mutual aid, public memory, deliberation, collaboration, accountability, and community self-organization.

    seizethemeans.communitarium.or

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity #CommunitariumProject

    #mayormamdani #fediverse #seizethemeansofcommunity #communitariumproject
  8. Rancho de la Libertad @[email protected]

    This month's newsletter release for paid subscribers is a compilation of the six biggest things we think you need to consider before going off on your homesteading, permacultur-ing, or back-to-the-land-ing dream.

    While this might sound corny, we see you. We know that lots of you are disillusioned with the polycrisis and the economic and social institutions we live under and you wish for either sovereignty or an exit from capitalism or just to get out of your day job (or all three). Alternatively, we see those of you who are just trying to figure out how to reduce your own impact while seeking to solve some of the more structural issues, because let's face it: there is a possibility that all we can do is what *we* can do, because we know that the powers-that-be really might not care that we need change.

    So we sat down and thought about what mistakes we made, and what mistakes others make, and what it is that people are ultimately looking to do when they try to get into a life like this. The result is useful, we think, and we hope that if you can spare $5 you'll look into it. Any contributions help us with our own sovereignty project, and help us feed others, and help us rewild this section of the Mojave and (we hope) a big enough section to make meaningful microclimate impacts one day.

    If you read it, or contribute in any way, or share it, thank you very much. We appreciate you, and you're helping to keep us going.

    #RanchoDeLaLibertad #RegenerativeAg #Rewilding #Homesteading #Permaculture #IndigenousOwned #Decolonize #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #Polycrisis #FoodProduction #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

    rancholibertad.com/6-things-to

    #ranchodelalibertad #regenerativeag #rewilding #homesteading #permaculture #indigenousowned
  9. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    ‘Seeking connection’: the video game where players stopped shooting and started talking

    In a post-apocalyptic landscape of cutthroat scavengers, surprisingly peaceful players are opting to team up and open up – a phenomenon that’s intriguing game developers and psychologists alike

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

    theguardian.com/games/2026/apr

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  10. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    Left theorizing (and praxis) has mostly failed to incorporate the insights and lived experience of the last 30 years of open-source development, ownership, and distribution—leaving the field largely shaped by a kind of humanist libertarianism: strong in its expression of democratic individualism, weaker on the requirements of coordinated mutualism.

    This is disappointing, given that socialism itself developed in part as an attempt to reclaim, organize, and systematize the commons tradition within expanding state societies.

    What might come from a deliberate and sustained attempt to bring these traditions together within the federated web—perhaps through a worldwide network within the Fediverse oriented toward global collective solidarity, mutual support, and active resistance?

    Would anyone be interested in forming an online community to explore and advance such an effort?

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #TheCommunitariumProject

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #thecommunitariumproject
  11. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    **Such Interesting Aunties: Queering Care**

    *Joel is the only non-parental member of a queer parenting collective; Cody is a trans man who’s been mistaken for his chosen niece and nephew’s dad*

    My son Joel is one of the subjects of this Substack post from Lisa Sibbett, who writes **The Auntie Bulletin**, about "practical, everyday kinship".

    I'm proud of him: he is working out the practice of what, so far, I have merely theoretically gestured toward:

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #CommunitariumProject

    theauntie.substack.com/p/such-

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #communitariumproject
  12. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    Many local candidates build campaigns on messaging and fundraising, but some recent successes grow from deeper involvement in community life. A “communitarium”—a community-owned, open-source civic commons—can help residents work together long before elections. It strengthens trust, aligns means with values, and gives political life a place to exist between campaigns.

    #TheCommunitariumProject
    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #UnderstandMamdani

    seizethemeans.communitarium.or

    #thecommunitariumproject #seizethemeansofcommunity #understandmamdani
  13. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    Gifting with Integrity: Federated Digital Spaces for Mutual Aid Networks

    When friends told me, years ago, about "Buy Nothing" -- a Facebook group that implemented an impressive mutual aid ecology, I was intrigued... but did not follow up...because Facebook.

    Now, though, they are undertraking a move to the Fediverse, using @bonfire as their online framework!

    #CommunitariumProject
    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

    bonfirenetworks.org/posts/gift

    #communitariumproject #seizethemeansofcommunity
  14. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    Do like me, support Framasoft !

    PeerTube is crucial in the fight to erode the control of user content by centralized, commercial, exploitive interests.

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #CommunitariumProject

    soutenir.framasoft.org

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #communitariumproject
  15. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    Democracy as Practice, Socialism as Counter-Community

    If democracy is a practice, then it cannot be sustained by electoral ritual alone. It must be enacted in everyday life, through communities that share power, resources, and meaning.

    seizethemeans.communitarium.or

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #CommunitariumProject

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #communitariumproject
  16. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    Why Redefine Socialism?

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

    Classical socialism—especially in its Marxist and state-centered variants—tends to treat sociality as either:

    - a derivative of economic conditions, or
    - something that will naturally emerge once class antagonisms are resolved.

    But our project insists that sociality is not a byproduct—it is the substrate.

    seizethemeans.communitarium.or

    #TheCommunitariumProject

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #thecommunitariumproject
  17. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    Redefining Socialism

    "[S]ocialism is not a set of policies. It’s a way of organizing life so that the systems we build, maintain, and inhabit serve the flourishing of people in their full, embedded, interdependent existence. That means not just changing ownership structures, but changing the terms of belonging and the terms of engagement."

    #CommunitariumProject
    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

    seizethemeans.communitarium.or

    #communitariumproject #seizethemeansofcommunity
  18. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    How ‘The Dawn of Everything’ Speaks to the Current Moment

    Graeber and Wengrow make the case that both [Hobbes' and Rousseau's] views are misguided, that there is no linear tale of human history. They argue that a closer look at the data reveals that human beings have been experimenting with models for how to live as far back as we can look.

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #CommunitariumProject

    undark.org/2025/05/29/opinion-

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #communitariumproject
  19. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    Lowering the Threshold: Socialism Begins with Shared Life, Not Just Shared Demands

    What if socialism began not with political identity, but with shared life? This post explores how DSA’s strongest cultural practices could be extended outward—through low-threshold, participatory platforms we call communitaria—so more people can live socialism before they’re asked to name it.

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #CommunitariumProject
    #DSA

    seizethemeans.communitarium.or

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #communitariumproject #dsa
  20. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    The photo below shows the current state of #CommunitariumProject

    This article gives a basic idea of what I would like us to build:
    seizethemeans.communitarium.or

    Elaborations can be found in these articles: seizethemeans.communitarium.or

    If you are interested please DM me or send an email to [email protected]

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

    #communitariumproject #seizethemeansofcommunity
  21. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    From Seattle to Atlanta, new social housing programs seek to make homes permanently affordable for a range of incomes

    Urban planner Jonathan Tarleton has highlighted another issue: the danger of social housing reverting over time to private ownership, as has been the case with some cooperatives in NYC. He stresses the need for “social maintenance” – the importance of telling and retelling the story of whom social housing is meant to serve.
    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

    theconversation.com/from-seatt

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  22. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    Zohran Mamdani Won’t Save New York—But He Can Help New York Save Itself

    Zohran Mamdani won’t save NYC—but he might help it save itself. His campaign opened the door to an ongoing collaboration between elected leadership and ordinary people. If we organize ourselves as durable, visible communities, we can turn shared values into lasting power.

    #TheMamdaniMovement
    #MamdaniForMayorNYC
    #UndesrstandMamdani
    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #NYC

    seizethemeans.communitarium.or

    #themamdanimovement #mamdaniformayornyc #undesrstandmamdani #seizethemeansofcommunity #nyc
  23. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    Unofficial vendors often set up tables on the sidewalks bordering the block on Isham Street where, every Saturday morning, the GrowNYC-sponsored Farmers' Market takes place.
    This morning there was a "Gaza Market" table, whose proceeds go to families in Gaza.

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

    #seizethemeansofcommunity
  24. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    @ChemicalEyeGuy
    I'll leave specific tactics to others, who will have to weigh Trump's demonstrable willingness to break the law (gleefully) and to deploy armed goons to back up his cruelty, indifference, and narcissism.
    The counter-measures I am actively contemplating tend toward long-term cultivation of counter-power via new forms of organizing: seizethemeans.communitarium.or
    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #CommunitariumProject

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #communitariumproject
  25. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    I've initiated a new series on my blog with the article:
    Zohran Mamdani as DSA in the Flesh: Disindividuated Politics, Foundational Justice, and the Power of Sincerity

    seizethemeans.communitarium.or

    #MamdaniForMayorNYC
    #ZohranMamdani
    #UnderstandMamdani
    #CommunitariumProject
    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #TheMamdaniMovement

    #mamdaniformayornyc #zohranmamdani #understandmamdani #communitariumproject #seizethemeansofcommunity #themamdanimovement
  26. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    @yvonnezlam
    These days, I'm keeping myself going with the hope that *another tech is possible*!

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #CommunitariumProject

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #communitariumproject
  27. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    🔥 Bonfire Install Party #1 – Get your fediverse instance running!

    Bonfire (@bonfire) seems to align technologically with many of the values which I am trying to promote with the #CommunitariumProject* (and with the more general approach of #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity ). Unfortunately, I have something scheduled for that time, so I'm hoping that a video record of the event will be made available.

    mobilizon.libretic.fr/events/c

    * seizethemeans.communitarium.or

    #communitariumproject #seizethemeansofcommunity
  28. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    What is a democratic socialist?
    Corey Robin

    "The stories of these candidates are socialist for another reason: They break with the nation-state. The geographic references of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez — or Ms. Tlaib — are local rather than national, invoking the memory and outposts of American and European colonialism rather than the promise of the American dream."

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #CommunitariumProject
    #MamdaniForMayorNYC
    #AOC
    #ZohranMamdani

    coreyrobin.com/2025/06/26/what

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #communitariumproject #mamdaniformayornyc #aoc #zohranmamdani
  29. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    As someone who's posted #MamdaniForMayorNYC and #ZohranMamdani to the Fediverse dozens of times over the last few months I can assure you the response is *nothing* like that described in this tweet.
    I consider that an advantage of the Fediverse, an indicator that it is far less susceptible to the "drive-by community" fostered by mainstream social media.
    But I would also like to develop its capacity for meaningful social and political reach.
    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #CommunitariumProject

    #mamdaniformayornyc #zohranmamdani #seizethemeansofcommunity #communitariumproject
  30. (((Baslow))) @[email protected]

    The Limits of Family Abolition

    "Family abolitionism wants to make care more collective, more just, freer. That’s a goal I share. But that project begins not with the end of the family, but with a sober assessment of what families are — and what they are not — under capitalism. Let’s fight for better ways to live and care together. But let’s not assume that abolishing the family will help us reach that goal."

    #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
    #CommunitariumProject

    jacobin.com/2025/06/family-abo

    #seizethemeansofcommunity #communitariumproject
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