Скачать или смотреть Toward a Commonist Future: Insights from Food to Systemic Shift

Dr. S A Hamed Hoseini, in his conference paper (12 Oct 2025- New Economy Network Australia) introduces the Commonist Value Theory as a critical framework to challenge capitalism's supremacy by redefining what society truly values, arguing that current crises stem from capital's definition of "value" which serves only accumulation. The central purpose of the theory is to distinguish between Fetish Value—worth defined by what can be captured for profit—and True Value—the indispensable conditions for the survival and flourishing of all life. Hosseini asserts that commoning, or regenerative practices mirroring life's own logic of reciprocity and maintenance, is the process through which True Value is created, and he uses Aristotle's Four Causes (Efficient, Material, Formal, and Final) to map how capitalism systematically perverts these sources of life into sources of Fetish Value in a process called decommonization. Ultimately, the source outlines a strategy for recommonization, proposing that building grassroots alternatives must be paired with political and constitutional transformation to protect and scale these life-affirming practices, making collective well-being the supreme law.