Totalism Cooperative
A manifesto/introduction for future cooperants.
If you are interested in partnering as en employer, see 🔗coop-works.
Last Updated: 2021-08-17
¶Basics
The Totalism Cooperative organizes very acceptable labour, to provide for the minimised subsistence costs of self-directed lives, typically within hackbases.
### [!] explain base
### focus is on working minimum hours, and offering a quality, but accessibly-priced labour, to exciting and agreeable employer partners.
* How?
Via mapping great or at least 🔗non-shitty work-givers — progressive NGOs, academia, or companies, grants, etc — the cooperative finds & coordinates work that:
* is meaningful and ethically sound, supporting progressive causes
* is an involving & learning experience, individually and for the collective
* meets consensus-established standards, serves common goals
* The need:
Hackbase life contributions are typically ~400€ / month.
There is a growing network of bases Europe-wide.
To subsist and have maximum freedom: both as free-from, and free-to.
* Economics of mutual interest:
* Employers, the cooperative & cooperants harmonize on their wider goals.
* Labour compensation is typically set ~20€ per hour.
### "comradely rate"
* Thus, cooperants without dependants need to work ~20h / month to sustainably live in a network of bases; the rest is freed up.
to hack on other projects, learn, travel, teach, political activation, etc.
* (...only inside bases?)
More must abandon typical rent relations!
There are a wide variety of bases, and similar spaces.
It is however possible to participate in the cooperative from other, specific existing and stable living arrangements.
The Totalism Cooperative organizes very acceptable labour, to provide for the minimised subsistence costs of self-directed lives, typically within hackbases.
* How?
Via mapping great or at least 🔗non-shitty work-givers — progressive NGOs, academia, or companies, grants, etc — the cooperative finds & coordinates work that:
* is meaningful and ethically sound, supporting progressive causes
* is an involving & learning experience, individually and for the collective
* meets consensus-established standards, serves common goals
* The need:
Hackbase life contributions are typically ~400€ / month.
There is a growing network of bases Europe-wide.
* Economics of mutual interest:
* Employers, the cooperative & cooperants harmonize on their wider goals.
* Labour compensation is typically set ~20€ per hour.
* Thus, cooperants without dependants need to work ~20h / month to sustainably live in a network of bases; the rest is freed up.
* (...only inside bases?)
More must abandon typical rent relations!
There are a wide variety of bases, and similar spaces.
It is however possible to participate in the cooperative from other, specific existing and stable living arrangements.
¶What we do
See → 🔗coop-works
* per-hour consultation or project work
* "Free/Open source" projects (donations, paid deployment & maintenance)
* public, research & artistic 🔗grants
* "commercial projects" or "commissions"
* [...]
See → 🔗coop-works
¶ Work for mutual goals
Employers, the cooperative, and cooperants harmonize on:
co-production and organizational culture,
political, social and environmental attitude,
supply chains responsibility,
accessibility,
release licensing,
In the same way also, recursively, employer's co-operants are considered as well
etc.
### could merge above to "mutual interest of employer"
Employers, the cooperative, and cooperants harmonize on:
co-production and organizational culture,
political, social and environmental attitude,
supply chains responsibility,
accessibility,
release licensing,
etc.
¶ Work within a consolidated network
The harmonization also considers associations and partnerships.
An organization's stated goals are pointless if they are serving unaligned organizations, at any level of recursion.
The harmonization also considers associations and partnerships.
An organization's stated goals are pointless if they are serving unaligned organizations, at any level of recursion.
¶ Work for less money
* Cap payment at providing subsistence:
Makes work more accessible to aligned employers, and expands our pool of available meaningful work.
Above the cap, share an investment pool → 🔗postmarket.
Life financials in bases → 🔗subfinance.
Makes work more accessible to aligned employers, and expands our pool of available meaningful work.
¶ Work integrated
Scale is more effective than replication.
We are encouraging the integration of 🔗coop-alike.
Small disjointed units, with redundant organizational workloads, are struggling within the existing market economy.
We prefer to see larger-scale integral cooperatives, towards increasingly autonomous economies.
<-- "work = export, spend money = import"
### explain "Totalism" name ... rather than island of consensus, strives for a growing consensus
Scale is more effective than replication.
We are encouraging the integration of 🔗coop-alike.
Small disjointed units, with redundant organizational workloads, are struggling within the existing market economy.
We prefer to see larger-scale integral cooperatives, towards increasingly autonomous economies.
¶ Work inclusively
Protocols > Chatter.
Onboarding of new people is done as clear processes.
not community deliberation.
Organisational barriers that delay participation are minimized.
from being "inside" or "outside".
### could merge as "less risk" with "comradely rates"
Onboarding of new people is done as clear processes.
Organisational barriers that delay participation are minimized.
¶Cooperate !
Send a short introduction with —
* Current work or study status, and ideas about your future direction
* Skills & interests, or a CV
* General ideas about bases & cooperatives
, and its counter-capitalist mission
— to info@totalism.org.
Send a short introduction with —
* Current work or study status, and ideas about your future direction
* Skills & interests, or a CV
* General ideas about bases & cooperatives
— to info@totalism.org.