Living beyond capitalism https://www.meer.com/en/76457-living-beyond-capitalism 13 October 2023 The commune movement in Germany
A crucial strategy to tackle these and other challenges and problems is cross-learning and support amongst communes. Six of them around Kassel town have a network, in turn they are part of a wider network across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, called Kommuja...
. Networks like ECOLISE, connected to GEN, also engage in advocacy for supportive policies at national and European levels. And society in general is accepting them more, rather than viewing them as fringe ‘hippie’ movements; this includes greater attention by academia and mainstream media.
What I saw and heard of the commune and shared or solidarity economy movement in Germany, gave me hope. None of these initiatives has all the answers, and they are still nowhere near powerful enough to overcome the dominant system.