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A moral economy is an economy that exists for moral reasons, and that is guided by the ethics of dialectical naturalism. This especially includes considerations of usufruct, complementarity, and the Nicomachean Ethics.
... The point is that a moral economy exists for moral reasons, not simply for reasons of survival or gain. The good life, materially supported by "goods" that are the messengers of "goodness," is an end in itself: a source of new selfhood and new ways of life; an ongoing education in forms of association, virtue, and decency; a countervailing force to the socially, morally, and psychologically corrosive marketplace and its unbridled egotism.[Market Economy or Moral Economy]
TIL about so-called "multinaturalism" and "indigenous perspectivism". The struggle against postmodernist idiocy never ends.
This is a comprehensive list of privacy-respecting alternatives.
Personally, I recommend Firefox for browser, Duckduckgo for search and Protonmail for email. I use Zorin as my OS which is Ubuntu-based - it can run some Windows apps through WINE.
Heh my voice isn't exactly soothing either, but I'd daresay it's functional. I'm just doing everything using an internal laptop mic and Audacity atm, bare bones but i think it'd do.
Fwiw The Next Revolution is on Amazon (yeah yeah...) for $18 and digital copies can be found on Library Genesis for free; the others were hard to find and expensive like you said.
Matrix is "an open network for secure, decentralized communication", like, federated chatrooms. Its use and development has been getting bigger and begger, the French and German governments and Mozilla use it, etc, the clients have rough edges and I don't think full on VOIP isn't there yet, but it's just a matter of time methinks.
Greetings! A little late here, but just came upon this thread. I also needed a higher quality version, and stumbled upon this, one of the anthologies that included the essay in PDF (p. 180).
My earlier post on starting A Communalist FAQ seems to have a lot of community support, so let's do it! I understand this is a huge project, but we can do it! If working in the free software community has taught me anything it's that community collaboration makes massive projects seem not so massive. Anyone with the link can edit, so have at it!
The link to edit is here: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/qseWYuu4qFkvBx33bL5enl5x/
"Why didn't you just use Google Docs?"
I am a strong believer in the idea that the means by which we do political activism ought to embody our aims. Therefore nothing to me would be more egregious than reliance on a corporate collaborative platform whose revenue stems from the exploitation of its users' data and whose servers are open wide to intelligence agencies with seemingly unlimited power and virtually no oversight. Thus I started this FAQ using CryptPad rather than Google Docs. You do not need an account to use CryptPad, just click the link and start editing! CryptPad is a free, privacy respecting, "zero knowledge" cloud provider. If you are an activist who wishes to collaborate without compromising your privacy you can use CryptPad with Tor Browser. This is how I have been editing it.
After you edit, feel free to add your name/ handle to the list of contributors. Naturally this is going to be released under a free license, meaning anyone can read and edit it.
I hope to see this grow into something beautiful!
Thanks for the feedback. Found this book on Amazon but haven't read it. Might be of interest to the discussions here.
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The Economics of Star Trek: The Proto-Post-Scarcity Economy