i wonder if you have across this essay by robin wall kimmerer too. so moving and so in line with what you're exploring in this essay - summoning the faith that there will be a future in the relationship when further generous energy will flow between people and living from that place. https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/
I took a pause from reading David Graeber’s Debt:The First 5000 Years to read this, and chapter 5 is very relevant! It makes a case that “there are three main moral principles on which economic relations can be founded”: communism, hierarchy, and exchange.” And he has this line that “communism is at the root of all human sociability” that really resonates with this.
I should also say he draws a clear distinction between “epic communism” (the ostensible end goal of the Soviet Union) and “baseline communism” (the principle of “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need”)
i wonder if you have across this essay by robin wall kimmerer too. so moving and so in line with what you're exploring in this essay - summoning the faith that there will be a future in the relationship when further generous energy will flow between people and living from that place. https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/
Oh my gosh Ivona I love this! Somehow even more wildly relevant and beautiful writing from her on this topic! Thank you for sharing.
I took a pause from reading David Graeber’s Debt:The First 5000 Years to read this, and chapter 5 is very relevant! It makes a case that “there are three main moral principles on which economic relations can be founded”: communism, hierarchy, and exchange.” And he has this line that “communism is at the root of all human sociability” that really resonates with this.
I should also say he draws a clear distinction between “epic communism” (the ostensible end goal of the Soviet Union) and “baseline communism” (the principle of “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need”)