THE COMMON GOOD WORK
The combined effect of globalization, economic crisis and climate change (three interdependent processes) if it threatens the survival of our planet, surely the human society. We are entering a time of great upheaval: the environmental, economic, geopolitical. May open the way for huge disasters, the proliferation of wars, to affirm increasingly authoritarian regimes, the worsening of living conditions of billions of human beings. But major upheavals also involve major changes: in which there is room for prospects who until a few years ago might have seemed utopian. For this we need to think back to the big, dare to take new routes, we are confident that what we are trying to do it, and under conditions very different ways, millions and maybe billions of others like us, and that our paths will meet .
Thirty years of unchallenged dominance of the "unique thought" they locked the ruling classes around the world in an eternal present, making them incapable of any development broad. Truth and ability to think in the future have remained the preserve of those who rebelled against the existing state of things.
Those who look to the future from the perspective of a different world now knows, in general terms, many things about how the world must change to survive and allow everyone to live better. They are "things" relating to energy (energy efficiency and renewables), agriculture (organic, multicolturale, multifunctional) and food sovereignty, the full recovery of waste and waste management, land conservation. They all tend to km0 practices (ie, involving a gradual rapprochement of production and consumption), each of which has an indispensable social, equity-oriented and welcoming. We know we have borrowed from the planet Earth for future generations and to manage a portion (usually the one where we live) on behalf of all. We are not, that is, and do not consider ourselves "masters in our house." Our concept of sovereignty is different: it is called autonomy, self-government, sharing.
practices of the movement in recent years have grown more and more variations of this approach and knowledge of those in local contexts, including their highly differentiated, but their reference to a global thought, those practices are not in danger of falling into a Corporate localism no breath and no outlets. This version of a global thinking locally is obviously easier (or less difficult) on issues concerning land use, because the local dimension is intrinsic: it is not the case was first practiced by planners and investment particularly issues such as housing, water management, waste, mobility, culture, public spaces.
this decline is more difficult when it concerns large flows of planetary materials, semi-physical goods which are and remain the essence of industrial production. For this, around the so-called green economy, ie the conversion environment dell’apparato produttivo permane una sostanziale ambivalenza. Molti dicono: “la green economy la sta già facendo, o si metterà presto a farla, il capitale; per salvaguardare i suoi profitti”. Non è così. Anche se la fa, e quando la fa, il grande capitale di green economy ne fa poca: troppo poca; tanto è vero che non riesce a darsi regole che permettano di frenare la corsa del pianeta verso il baratro dei cambiamenti climatici. E la fa male; sfruttando quanto più può lavoratori e ambiente (l’esempio più perverso di questo approccio è forse quello degli agrocarburanti). Noi invece dobbiamo agire perché di green economy se ne faccia molta (e presto; prima che i guasti del pianeta diventino irreversible) and well: that is facing problems in their social dimension.
"Good" means that the work must not be subject to this transformation, but an actor, along with other actors who contribute to the social structure of a given territory. For this work is the true frontier of ecological conversion. For many this is the recent acquisition: the job is a "common good" it said Fiom, under the pressure of the employment crisis - and blackmail Pomigliano - and made it the centerpiece of the event on October 16. E 'claim challenging.
But what is a common good? I think we should shy away from any classification, upon a closed catalog, defined once and for all. Because the boundary that demarcates the area of \u200b\u200bcommon property is mobile, it is the result of a permanent dispute - which sometimes leads to fighting, sometimes in an organized and planned, and more in all three things - to rob a privately run use values \u200b\u200bthat can be shared. But the result of this process is not the acquisition or restoration of the property disputed in the area of \u200b\u200bpublic property, even if often but not always, this is an unavoidable step. Because it means sharing public participation in the asset management contended: in forme che dipendono, sì, dalla sua natura e dalle sue dimensioni; ma anche, e soprattutto, dall’intensità dell’impegno della “cittadinanza attiva”; o di una sua parte. Per questo forse nessun bene sarà mai veramente “comune” fino in fondo; ovvero, ci sarà sempre la possibilità di rendere più intenso e profondo questo suo carattere.
Ora, affermare che il lavoro è un bene comune è una proposizione che riguarda certamente, e in primo luogo, la salvaguardia della dignità del lavoro e dei diritti che una società deve garantire ai lavoratori; ma significa anche, e soprattutto, che le modalità in cui il lavoro viene impiegato, le finalità di this use and, consequently, such a product (good or service) of that work are issues that can, and should, first of all involved to see the workers themselves, but also the whole community that insists on the territory in which that work is intertwined: whether depends on them for the income it generates, whether they bear the environmental burden that it entails. Simply stating that connection to see how far we are - and how we are moving away - from a world where work is actually a common good. But also that the inclusion of work in the "catalog" of common property is, like all others, a process and not an acquisition ultimately, a work in progress that proceeds in stages, for advanced and backward, and that probably will never end.
But the work is, however, the true frontier of environmental conversion of production and consumption patterns. It 's a frontier that few of us - of who is involved in projects and in struggles for land conservation and cohabitation - is featured in its own right (unlike the case of the millions of farmers and thousands of rural communities engaged in claim and pursue their own self-government).
It 's easy - and sacred to me - say, less pollution, less traffic, fewer cars. But it is difficult to say to workers of a car factory in crisis. Yet it is here that should be pass. And you can do it only looked forward, and subjecting them to verify their involvement, their suggestions, an alternative proposal. The importance of the story of Fiat's Pomigliano is this. They are certainly in play, and safeguard the dignity of labor rights and health of workers: all things without which democracy will disappear. But placed between the end some of the Termini Imerese and the weakening of the Mirafiori equally certain, and in front of a blackmail that says "give me everything for nothing, then we'll see," everyone understood, although few have acknowledged explicitly - and not always their fault, but for the difficulties associated with finding, more than others, on the frontier of the work - the game that you play is much higher and not just about which models and how many cars each plant should produce. The real question is: in Italy there are still factories capable of producing cars? And how many? And for how long? And if you were to shut down, as has been suggested, may develop industrial production in Italy that have more chance of success? Maybe because they represent the future, why do not harm the environment because they can benefit from a local market, without forcing workers to compete with other workers, to the sound of declines, in a race relentlessly toward getting worse? And how to engage in a kind of turning workers than factories and communities of the territories to which they refer? (Www.guidoviale.blogspot.it)
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