Free, Fair and Alive
The insurgent power of the commons.
David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, New Society Publishers, September 2019
Free, Fair & Alive is a foundational re-thinking of the commons, the self-organized social systems that human beings have used for millennia to meet their needs. From fisheries and forests to alternative currencies and open source everything, people are increasingly using “commoning” to emancipate themselves from a predatory market/state system and take charge of their lives. The book is at the same time a cultural critique, a political treatise, and a practical playbook for building a new world of commoning.