Socialists in our everyday lives
The economic anthropologist, David Graeber, said we are all socialists in our everyday lives. We help each other, share things and produce for mutual benefit.
I would hate to live in a world where we did not help and care for each other.
The word socialism, like communism and capitalism, is a loaded word. As any of these words are spoken, they project spectres of distorted meaning into existence, and as such, leave no opportunity for sanity and discourse.
The discipline in Syntropic World is to go back to the Source of the creation of a word, a tool, a code, an idea, a belief.
If we go to etymology we learn;
Socialism includes cooperation and community ownership being of more importance than competition and individual effort.
Communism is based on collective ownership.
Capitalism is about having and keeping capital and encouraging capital accumulation. The structure of capitalism changes our behaviour towards winner-takes-all, removing the empathy and care that enables cooperation and community building.
A Syntropic World would not have any of these systems; rather, it would have a new system that transcends and includes some elements of some of them.
We want to work together locally, to support each other, to be there in care for our fellow citizens.
There are some things we should all own, placed in the Commons. The air, the water, our forests, the energy supply, the resources gifted to our home country, our education, health and elder care – all should live in the Commons.
We want to build the opportunity for all people to increase their well-being through valued productivity and contribution.
We want to honour all domains of value expression. The person who plays the diplomat as a skill needs to be acknowledged, as does the person who invents the thing to be produced.
We want to allow our care of the home—our economy—to be created together by the people, not by those who deem themselves superior enough to do it for us. And certainly not by the capitalists, whose sole objective is to extract maximum profit for minimum effort, turning all life into commodities as they do.
The Synergistic Accounting tool is designed as an antidote to the extractive, death star capitalism.
Photo April 27 2023, Article written April 30th 2025
