Jeff Brown, Thank you for your sobering well researched facts about Allied atrocities. As a Quebecois with many friends from France, I must confirm your assessment of French falsehood indoctrination, never having looked at both sides, about WW2 & D-day. I don't condone war, the Axis or Allied role, but like Mohandas Gandhi's devotion to India's 'Swadeshi' (Hindi 'indigenous' aka 'self-sufficiency') I know there are formal 'participatory' (Latin 'part' = 'share') & dialogical (Hindi 'Satyagraha' = 'Truth-search') practices, which could have easily replaced destructive WW2 with productive human & biosphere regeneration.
There were many 100s of 1000s of French sympathizers / collaborators with the Axis cause, many (~50,000) of these who were systematically murdered after D-day. The Axis march into France was a cake-walk precisely because of this popular welcome, not by all, but by a huge number of people wanting to bring in a better form of economic governance.
I wish (if I may, considering these facts are not allowed to be expressed in polite empire society?) to bring a less understood 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') perspective about human economic willingness & productivity, contrasting the:
2) Axis multistakeholder distributed participatory business model.
PERSONAL DISCLOSURE: My own research started with my father's praise for the participatory investment, ownership, Board-representation & human stakeholder satisfaction in his company, where he worked as a machinist-mechanic Foreman. However for myself after years of active development of the false 'co-operative' ('co' = 'together' + 'operatives' = 'stakeholders') in the Natural Foods Co-op network of British Columbia, with a group of provincial organizers we realized how we were not achieving popular citizen involvement nor our own goals. Someone within our group started an 'Indigenous-Economy' study group to learn about the worldwide participatory indigenous Production-Society-Guilds & the role of time-based, equivalency accounting with the String-shell Value system (eg. Wampum on 'Turtle-Island' / North America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie shell in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands. While in my role as a developer & operator within the Natural Foods networks in BC & Quebec over 25 years, those of us advocating for a more fair & robust Relational-Economy system did not succeed in transforming co-ops back to their original indigenous form. I was able in my 1975 role as a Chemical Technician, quality & pollution control specialist in the Technical Department of Celgar Pulp Mill to influence our local union & management at Canadian Cellulose Company to implement a participatory multistakeholder system. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy
This human economic willingness difference lies behind much of human history including the colonial wars of the last 500 years which have murdered over 1/2 billion people as well as going back to the beginnings of empire 7000 years ago in Babylon with the same oligarch thread of false metal-coin 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') centralized issue & command & control of western society & nations. During the colonial period between 1920 (post WW1) to 1945 the Allies under oligarch-order murdered over 15 million First Nations in the Americas & indigenous peoples worldwide, in all our colonies, apart from our WW2 atrocities.
Still today, even after the post Allied-victory genocide, which Axis nations experienced, Axis companies have strong ongoing law & practice of requiring companies with over 30 employees, to convene the investment & ownership of managers & workers but as well often diverse combinations of Founders, Workers, Managers, Suppliers, Townspeople & Consumers.
In Germany-Austria-Netherlands the name 'Associative Economics', In Serbia-Croatia-Yugoslavia-Poland-Ukraine-Russia the name 'Zadruga' (Russian 'Druk' = 'friend'). In Korea 'Chaebol'. In Japan 'Keiretsu'. In Italy with the metaphor of the 'Fasces' ('bundle of small-sticks'), which together can not be broken, among other Axis names where stakeholders from the bottom-up gain opportunity to contribute intelligently to their economic life.
Over the course of one's working career, workers & stakeholders progressively invest & develop share ownership as part of their compensation package. Workers/stakeholders, as distinct Associations, elect (one-share/one-vote) Director seats on company Boards. This form of Economic-Democracy puts decision-making in the hands of Contributors with experience, expertise & decision-making acumen. These companies today, because of stakeholder invested-interest have the highest productivity, profitability & environmental performance. Beyond money, time, resources, expertise, goods, services, patronage & other resources, all have immense economic value. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/participatory-accounting
In fact most internal accounting in corporations, institutions & governments today is about such as: time-sheets, inventories, population & commerce statistics & other productive factors. Money is mainly accounted for externally. These accounting & internal popular governance participatory performance is the economic miracle, which brought humanity out of the western oligarch created depression of 1929 & still the best performing companies today. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
From an indigenous perspective, missing from today's Participatory businesses is the collective Domestic 'Economy' (Gk 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture'). All indigenous humanity organized the primary 'economy' within the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). These intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale formed the base 'fractal' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') of indigenous economic culture. Industry & Commerce are subsets to the primary collective 'Domestic' economy. Because women tend (not exclusively) to take more responsibility for domestic & 'community' (L 'com' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') affairs, our indigenous ancestors recognized this core area of expertise as crucial to all economy. Domestic collective professions such as: gardening, Polyculture Orchards, fiber/cloth/clothing, nutrition, medicine, accounting, mentored-apprenticeship, child-&-elder coordination etc, were organized into each specialty's Production-Society-Guilds. Today 70% of people live in Multihomes, with an average of 32 dwelling-units or ~100 people. 20% of multihome-dwellers are extended family members living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/extending-our-welcome-participatory-multi-home-cohousing
Formally accounting-recognizing women in Multihomes, neighbourhoods & back onto the Boards of directors of companies based in domestic contributions would have led to bottom-up national strategies & outcomes in the period of 1939-45, as well as internally stopped the oligarch control of western Allies. The Allies, who have conveniently blamed all WW2 murders, atrocities & genocide on the Axis have gone on to murder more than one million persons per year atrocities mostly in defenceless 3rd world countries such as our Allied wars against: Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Guatemala, Grenada, Columbia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Yugoslavia & Ukraine.
DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? on transforming 'community' (L 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') to bridge from individual to collective 'union'. Humanity's worldwide indigenous modelled, web-based Community Economy is transformed into a web-software program so average residents & neighbours can easily: 1) CATALOGUE our individual & business talents, goods, services, resources & dreams as complementary-talents, 2) MAP collaborative relationships, 3) ACCOUNT for transactions & contributions, 4) COMMUNICATE locally /c record keeping, agreement/contract development, bridge building & conflict resolution among family, friends & neighbours. Indigene Community's Web-Software programmers have developed Do-we-know-? so each person's specialized gift becomes an expert capable asset/value for the Multihome community & society at large. When communities show their strengths & leadership, then government gladly follows. Come join us & re-indigenize livelihood & achieve empowerment. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are
Wow, Douglas, that is an impressive treatise. You have obviously done some extensive research and I'm impressed. I also checked out your website, watched your Video 1 on polyculture and subscribed to your channel. I am sure you are a real asset in your neighborhood.
We have a garden here in France, but it's just our first year. Lots of tomatoes, beans and zucchini. Wishing you the best in your patch!
Jeff Brown, Thank you for your sobering well researched facts about Allied atrocities. As a Quebecois with many friends from France, I must confirm your assessment of French falsehood indoctrination, never having looked at both sides, about WW2 & D-day. I don't condone war, the Axis or Allied role, but like Mohandas Gandhi's devotion to India's 'Swadeshi' (Hindi 'indigenous' aka 'self-sufficiency') I know there are formal 'participatory' (Latin 'part' = 'share') & dialogical (Hindi 'Satyagraha' = 'Truth-search') practices, which could have easily replaced destructive WW2 with productive human & biosphere regeneration.
https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
There were many 100s of 1000s of French sympathizers / collaborators with the Axis cause, many (~50,000) of these who were systematically murdered after D-day. The Axis march into France was a cake-walk precisely because of this popular welcome, not by all, but by a huge number of people wanting to bring in a better form of economic governance.
I wish (if I may, considering these facts are not allowed to be expressed in polite empire society?) to bring a less understood 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') perspective about human economic willingness & productivity, contrasting the:
1) Allies oligarch-controlled 'exogenous' (L 'other-generated') colonial-empire centralized hierarchal corporate nations.
2) Axis multistakeholder distributed participatory business model.
PERSONAL DISCLOSURE: My own research started with my father's praise for the participatory investment, ownership, Board-representation & human stakeholder satisfaction in his company, where he worked as a machinist-mechanic Foreman. However for myself after years of active development of the false 'co-operative' ('co' = 'together' + 'operatives' = 'stakeholders') in the Natural Foods Co-op network of British Columbia, with a group of provincial organizers we realized how we were not achieving popular citizen involvement nor our own goals. Someone within our group started an 'Indigenous-Economy' study group to learn about the worldwide participatory indigenous Production-Society-Guilds & the role of time-based, equivalency accounting with the String-shell Value system (eg. Wampum on 'Turtle-Island' / North America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie shell in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands. While in my role as a developer & operator within the Natural Foods networks in BC & Quebec over 25 years, those of us advocating for a more fair & robust Relational-Economy system did not succeed in transforming co-ops back to their original indigenous form. I was able in my 1975 role as a Chemical Technician, quality & pollution control specialist in the Technical Department of Celgar Pulp Mill to influence our local union & management at Canadian Cellulose Company to implement a participatory multistakeholder system. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy
This human economic willingness difference lies behind much of human history including the colonial wars of the last 500 years which have murdered over 1/2 billion people as well as going back to the beginnings of empire 7000 years ago in Babylon with the same oligarch thread of false metal-coin 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') centralized issue & command & control of western society & nations. During the colonial period between 1920 (post WW1) to 1945 the Allies under oligarch-order murdered over 15 million First Nations in the Americas & indigenous peoples worldwide, in all our colonies, apart from our WW2 atrocities.
Still today, even after the post Allied-victory genocide, which Axis nations experienced, Axis companies have strong ongoing law & practice of requiring companies with over 30 employees, to convene the investment & ownership of managers & workers but as well often diverse combinations of Founders, Workers, Managers, Suppliers, Townspeople & Consumers.
In Germany-Austria-Netherlands the name 'Associative Economics', In Serbia-Croatia-Yugoslavia-Poland-Ukraine-Russia the name 'Zadruga' (Russian 'Druk' = 'friend'). In Korea 'Chaebol'. In Japan 'Keiretsu'. In Italy with the metaphor of the 'Fasces' ('bundle of small-sticks'), which together can not be broken, among other Axis names where stakeholders from the bottom-up gain opportunity to contribute intelligently to their economic life.
https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/7-participatory-companies
Over the course of one's working career, workers & stakeholders progressively invest & develop share ownership as part of their compensation package. Workers/stakeholders, as distinct Associations, elect (one-share/one-vote) Director seats on company Boards. This form of Economic-Democracy puts decision-making in the hands of Contributors with experience, expertise & decision-making acumen. These companies today, because of stakeholder invested-interest have the highest productivity, profitability & environmental performance. Beyond money, time, resources, expertise, goods, services, patronage & other resources, all have immense economic value. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/participatory-accounting
In fact most internal accounting in corporations, institutions & governments today is about such as: time-sheets, inventories, population & commerce statistics & other productive factors. Money is mainly accounted for externally. These accounting & internal popular governance participatory performance is the economic miracle, which brought humanity out of the western oligarch created depression of 1929 & still the best performing companies today. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
From an indigenous perspective, missing from today's Participatory businesses is the collective Domestic 'Economy' (Gk 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture'). All indigenous humanity organized the primary 'economy' within the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). These intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale formed the base 'fractal' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') of indigenous economic culture. Industry & Commerce are subsets to the primary collective 'Domestic' economy. Because women tend (not exclusively) to take more responsibility for domestic & 'community' (L 'com' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') affairs, our indigenous ancestors recognized this core area of expertise as crucial to all economy. Domestic collective professions such as: gardening, Polyculture Orchards, fiber/cloth/clothing, nutrition, medicine, accounting, mentored-apprenticeship, child-&-elder coordination etc, were organized into each specialty's Production-Society-Guilds. Today 70% of people live in Multihomes, with an average of 32 dwelling-units or ~100 people. 20% of multihome-dwellers are extended family members living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/extending-our-welcome-participatory-multi-home-cohousing
Formally accounting-recognizing women in Multihomes, neighbourhoods & back onto the Boards of directors of companies based in domestic contributions would have led to bottom-up national strategies & outcomes in the period of 1939-45, as well as internally stopped the oligarch control of western Allies. The Allies, who have conveniently blamed all WW2 murders, atrocities & genocide on the Axis have gone on to murder more than one million persons per year atrocities mostly in defenceless 3rd world countries such as our Allied wars against: Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Guatemala, Grenada, Columbia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Yugoslavia & Ukraine.
DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? on transforming 'community' (L 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') to bridge from individual to collective 'union'. Humanity's worldwide indigenous modelled, web-based Community Economy is transformed into a web-software program so average residents & neighbours can easily: 1) CATALOGUE our individual & business talents, goods, services, resources & dreams as complementary-talents, 2) MAP collaborative relationships, 3) ACCOUNT for transactions & contributions, 4) COMMUNICATE locally /c record keeping, agreement/contract development, bridge building & conflict resolution among family, friends & neighbours. Indigene Community's Web-Software programmers have developed Do-we-know-? so each person's specialized gift becomes an expert capable asset/value for the Multihome community & society at large. When communities show their strengths & leadership, then government gladly follows. Come join us & re-indigenize livelihood & achieve empowerment. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are
Wow, Douglas, that is an impressive treatise. You have obviously done some extensive research and I'm impressed. I also checked out your website, watched your Video 1 on polyculture and subscribed to your channel. I am sure you are a real asset in your neighborhood.
We have a garden here in France, but it's just our first year. Lots of tomatoes, beans and zucchini. Wishing you the best in your patch!
Jeff