A Movement to Transform Everything: Knowledge Production Towards Solidarity Economy in Hungary

Gagyi, Ágnes and Pósfai, Zsuzsanna and Taylor, Mary N. (2023) A Movement to Transform Everything: Knowledge Production Towards Solidarity Economy in Hungary. In: The Commonist Horizon : Futures Beyond Capitalist Urbanization. Common Notions, Brooklyn (NY); Philadelphia (PA), pp. 83-107. ISBN 978-1-94217-371-7; 978-1-94217-381-6

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Abstract

Three friends came together in 2021 to discuss the knowledge production unfolding in Hungary towards commoning and building a solidarity economy. Tracing ten years of research and action by a network of actors that has led to the development of a first rental cooperative house, the Gólya Cooperative, and the Kazán Community House, Ági and Zsuzsi reflect on the challenges and promises of small research-oriented initiatives, and questions of the commons vs. the solidarity economy. Asking how the observable capacity of people to take care of themselves can be freed from the extractive circuits of capital, they propose tracing relations of value while attempting to build technical solutions, allowing them to enter market relations but work against them and build the social power that can sustain such solutions.

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