Jeff, WHAT DO WE KNOW FOR SURE? Those millions of French, Algerian Vietnamese, Filipino etc 'Collaborateurs', of which 100s of 1000s were murdered mostly by Charles de-Gaulle forces in France can be understood as those who aligned with the 50 AXIS nations for assertion of the basic multistakeholder 'participatory' (Latin 'part' = 'share') Economic Democracy rights to ownership. Remember de-Gaulle's role in the France-Algerian colonial war & massacres, with the Liberators' welcome (Franz Fanon) received by General Rommel in North-Africa.
I agree the equation of world & particularly western fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') Oligarch command & control is complex, but it is better to consider this as an opportunity for a real both-(& many) sided, equal-time, recorded & published assessment of all the factors involved. The false story built on the one-sided Conquerors Show-trials of Nuremberg has only caused the Oligarch owned colonial west to continue in its human genocide of over one million people killed each year in 79 years since & still counting rapidly in Gaza today.
Before & during WW2 OVER 50 AXIS ALIGNED NATIONS joined together Achsenmachte-German (Associative-Economy), Polenze dell’Asse-Italian, Sujikukoku-Japanese (Keiretsu), Korean (Chaebol), Greater-East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere 1936-45 Powers & aligned collaborating governments & >50 nations as part of: Tripartite & Anti-Comintern, Pact-of-Steel Agreements & alliances with: Germany, Italy, Vichy France, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Croatia (Zadruga), Serbia, Albania, Slovakia, Czechia, (originally) Soviet Union, Romania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Greece, Crimea, Bulgaria, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Spain, Italy, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Eritrea, Ethiopia (reference to Koran directives against usury interest & for participatory ownership-shares), West Africa Dakar, Azad Hind India, Jammu, Kashmir, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Inner-Mongolia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers ECONOMIC ENGINE OF POPULAR EMPOWERMENT These 50+ AXIS aligned governments & aligned populations were supportive of the Multistakeholder 'Participatory' (L. 'part' = 'share') Corporation laws, constitutions & policies found within the 12 main AXIS powers which required all corporations over 30 employees to convene voting share ownership of all stakeholders (eg. Workers, Founders, Managers, Suppliers, Townspeople & Consumers) in various combinations. Participatory Accounting enabled these countries & collaborator populations to gain local control of their means of production & livelihood, not available in the Oligarch commanded & controlled Colonial Empire extractive & exploitive colonial Allied British, French, Belgium, Netherlands, USA, Canada, Australia countries. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-accounting/2-participatory-accounting
DEPRESSION RECOVERY success of Germany under the National Socialists derived from issue of LABOUR SCRIPTS or certificates of Labour time & tasks. German, Austrian, Hungarian, Korean, Japanese etc. 'indigenous' (L. 'self-generating') economic background of Participatory Ownership, also involves corporate, institutional & government Time-based, equivalency accounting practices with the Invested-Interest of each stakeholder grouped & represented on Corporate Boards-of-Directors.
Real 'Socialism' (L. 'socius' = 'friend') & real 'Communism' (from 'Community' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') involve people who know each other operating in control of their local enterprises & homes, not the false 'communist' basically imposed on Russia through Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Trotsky) & Vladimir Lenin. financed with millions of 1917 $ USD financed, armed & supplied by the New York Stock Exchange Leader Jacob Schiff (Jewish) & Schiff's colleague Germany's financier Warburg (Jewish). Refer to documentation by Antony Sutton in 'Wall Street & the Bolshevik Revolution'. https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Sutton_Wall_Street_and_the_bolshevik_revolution-5.pdf
Post Script: I don't claim to know all facts, but these participatory-ownership factors, need to be taken into account of a proper assessment, which I believe are complementary to your own report. In the meantime, I take the position of AGNOSTIC (not-knowing) what really happened. Participatory Companies http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/7-participatory-companies
Jeff, I'd love to refashion this agnostic comment into an article. Please give me some guidance on what you'd like to see structurally in the writing for the audience being reached? douglasjack@indigenecommunity.info
Much needed counterpoint; too many operative taboos for me to have an opinion except the desire for more info.
I read a book re France 1939 to 1947 by Sisley Huddleston called The Tragic Years
available in PDF on archive.org. I came away with impressions re Petain, De Gaulle, and the "Resistance," that I have yet to resolve. Huddleston's loyalties were to both Britain and France. He domiciled in France in Brittany if I remember correctly where his home was destroyed by the Allies as part of the gratuitous
destruction of France of which this article's further details I was ignorant.
Yes another article please. Greedy gump here; still reading both.
Elsbeth Ham, Thank you for Huddleston via Archive. I'm only just past reading page 156 of Sisley Huddleston's 324 pages of 'Tragic Years'. Its a pleasure to hear another perspective of one so intimate with many of the political actors, beyond our western Oligarch propaganda against France's General & President Marshall Petain of the past 80 years. Attached to all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') welcoming inclusive 'economy' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture'), I don't agree with either the Oligarch owned Empire Allies or the 50 Axis nations resort to war in order to establish their systems. However I do know that the western Oligarch $$ commanded & controlled Allied-nations had been part of killing a billion people in 500 years previous to WW2 in colonies & war, plus responsibility for half of the 100 million dead (killed & died with destruction of essential goods & services) during WW2, plus during 1918-45 killing or 'genociding' (UN definition = removing people from or destroying their means of livelihood) some 30 million people in their colonies plus about one million people per year in various destabilization & war intrigues since 1945-2025 = 80 million people gratuitously killed & genocided. Black Academics on Slavery in the Americas & the Phoenician Empire's 6000 years of Slavery previously 19Nov’21 2h56m47s https://youtu.be/S3mr0rsNyGs
A LOVING INCLUSIVE HUMAN ALLIANCE & JUSTICE
Huddleston fails in a few essential fundamentals.
"Permit me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class." attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild circa 1830s. This is a brilliant statement. All of us who are familiar with the very-expensive, unproductive, offices, staff, advertising, meetings, networking, jockeying & media dependent, fake 'political-democracy' process, know how absolutely true this Oligarch fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') dependent ruse is. None of us should pretend we live in a democracy.
1) Although coming from a well-financed aristocratic background himself, Sisley never mentions the Bankers & fake 'money' popular amnesia behind this & all wars. He describes multiple personalities as appear within each nation.
Every section of the book, so-far points out France's parasitic relations with its colonies, but somehow permits & encourages this as serving 'Liberte'. Although Huddleston declares he is for so-called 'equality', he never hints at or demonstrates in his own life, what he means. Most often at his place of aristocratic privilege, equality means, not having to care about one's neighbours, question one's own conspicuous consumption or to live within one's own means in partnership with all.
2) In WW2, we have the British, French, Belgium, Netherlands, USA-Canada-Australia-New-Zealand Oligarch Empire of vast colonial holdings with an ongoing genocide of millions of their colonial subjects per year being challenged by the Legislated participatory multistakeholder corporate ownership of the 50 Axis Nations. So far Huddleston is clueless, in his well-heeled lifestyle about what the worldwide Axis had agreed upon in their common mission.
FAKE 'COMMUNITY' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'). Russia having endured Wallstreet's Jacob-Schiff & Lev-Davidovich Bronstein-Trotsky as well as Germany's financier Warburg financing & owning of Lenin unfortunately went down the failed path of One-member/One-vote cooperative ownership. Local Co-op failure inevitably leads to centralization & bureaucratization such as the Soviet sphere demonstrated.
in 1917 & following, Western Oligarchs imposed violence & a retarded economic system on Russia & its surrounding, to-become 'Soviet', neighbours. By 1995 the Soviet sphere has completely abandoned this cruel dysfunctional, livelihood-retarding co-op practice. I helped develop & worked in co-ops in British Columbia & Quebec from 1969 to 1999 as well as living among Russian-Doukhobor, German-Mennonite, English-Quaker & American pacifist co-op communities from 1971-80 so can attest to the dysfunction as well as having participated in developing 'participatory' (L 'part' = 'share') investment, ownership & Board-of-Director representative systems for industry & commerce in the indigenous tradition among some of these & other communities.
POWER-OF-PROXIMITY Our Sustainable Development Association (Canadian Non-Profit 1994) & Indigene Community 1983 have developed a web-based Community Economy software for Cataloguing, Mapping, Accounting & Communication animation of the diverse Talents, goods, services, resources & dreams of people & businesses in our ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Villages) where 70% of people live today as well as surrounding neighbourhoods.
20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended families, living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration. These extended-family & friend information hubs as intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, Critical-mass, Economies-of-scale communities, have the lowest drugs, alcohol uptake per-capita as well as some of the highest social-interaction & business creation rates, because of natural complementary intergenerational mutual-aid & knowledge sharing.
Extended families are the largest Community & health service provider everywhere, providing some 2 trillion dollars/year on Turtle-Island (N. America) of the most appropriate caring, sharing, food, shelter, clothing, warmth & health services typically based in plant-based medicines & life-style healing, albeit unrecognized by government, institutions & education.
One Example of many: I have a diploma in Special Education & have worked over four decades in Residences, Group-homes, Hospitals & in Home-Community caring for folks labelled as 'Intellectually-Handicapped'. The reality of institutional care in Residences, Group-homes & Hospitals, is 5 shift staff per day plus 3 specialists totaling 2922 Changes of the Guard/ year, with no one knowing or valorizing the talents, gifts & knowledge of residents or patients. Nor are staff knowledgeable about whole person health care or empowerment. Culturally, everyone carries a special 'Brilliance-of-Life' for their family & community. Together, celebrating everyone, we create a loving efficiency of valuing & engaging every person including the elderly, young, middling, sick, healthy, injured etc. for their complementary contributions to 'community' (Latin 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'). Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? web-based Community-Circular Economy software for Multihomes & neighbourhood empowerment, Do-we-know-? Begins as intranet Virtual Private Network VPN systems, with internet & web-based advertising for individual & grouped Talents, goods, services, resources & dreams as voluntary PERSONAL DISCLOSURE CHOICES within each ~100 person Multihome & neighbourhood Circular-economy enhancing one's livelihood & community. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are
WEB-SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR DISTRIBUTED, DECENTRALIZED IMPLEMENTATION by everyone at home or work.
Elsbeth Ham, France the Tragic Years 1939-47, Fascinating on-site, historical-writing with personal-knowledge of most of the actors & their interactions, during WW2 Vichy government of General Philippe Petain by Sisley Huddleston, an expatriate British journalist who became a French citizen. Huddleston as one-must-say a diplomat, living in Normandy, Paris, Vichy & Monaco throughout the war & after interviews many of the main actors with the remarkable ability to report the perspectives of each as mostly honest brokers with good intentions. As the German motorized army sweeps quickly through Netherlands, Belgium & France, so quickly as to make the Maginot Line of Defence obsolete & catching the French & other armies unprepared, these 3 continental governments are forced to capitulate. Germany is responding to threats & preparations by these 4 governments to attack Germany over differences of interpretations about WW1 Treaty of Versailles. Relatively few deaths occur during the German invasion. General Petain played a major role in France's WW1 Verdun victory, so is chosen by the French Assembly to act as President during French-German Armistice signed by the French government of Laval & other ministers & plays a major behind the scenes role in maintaining France's ability to recover its sovereignty. Following D-Day, Petain in his plus 90 years of age is demonized by the diversity of Socialist, Communist, Gaullists, Royalist, released criminals & expatriate French who are looking for a scape-goat upon which to blame France's quick defeat. These self-chosen murder groups kill each other & officials of the Petain government, for dominance. Following the so-called Liberation more than 105,000 French are murdered in Fratricide. Britain & Americans bombs & soldiers, murder another equal number in gratuitous bombings of French towns & villages, while the German army is fleeing assaults from the North-west (Normandy) & South (Marseilles, Nice etc). This pattern of Fratricide repeats itself throughout the 50 aligned AXIS nations after their defeat, as western oriented individuals & groups desperately try to gain favour with the colonial $$ Oligarch empire Victors (Britain, USA, Canada etc). The German & other 49 nations' recovery from the western Oligarch 'Depression' was due to common Multistakeholder ownership practices & such as the Labour-Scripts issued in each company & region to restart their economies, bottom-up, while Oligarch nations of top-down command & control suffered decades longer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers
The French are so inured with their status as brutal spoiled Colonizers, living under Oligarch fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') amnesic rule that; they have 'forgotten' their own once 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') status as Franc, Galois (think: Asterix & Obelix), Breton etc. Celtic peoples & the once worldwide system of Relational-Economy accounting upon the String-shell time-based accounting systems of the world (eg. Wampum of Turtle-Island/N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie-shell in once indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
The 50 AXIS governments all had laws or constitutions requiring all Corporations over 30 employees to facilitate multi-stakeholder Employee, Manager, Supplier, Townspeople etc investment, ownership & board-representation. Hence the phenomenal engineering & production capacities including war proficiency of the AXIS nations were built upon collective intelligence, referred to as Economic Democracy. Unfortunately for Huddleston, Petain & 99.99% of western people today, this knowledge of our indigenous heritage is suppressed.
As western Oligarch subjects continue to kill people worldwide in Xenophobia at a rate of well over millions per year (>150 million since WW2), we are not even aware of the 7000 years of Oligarch empire control over the issue of our fake: Finance, money, capital, Media, Religion, Education Military-Industrial, Legislative, Judicial, Pharma-med & Agri-business COMPLEX. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
— PLEASE GIVE US A LITTLE “LO DOWN” NOW …
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Hard to be lo down, when the West is busily destroying the planet!
Jeff, WHAT DO WE KNOW FOR SURE? Those millions of French, Algerian Vietnamese, Filipino etc 'Collaborateurs', of which 100s of 1000s were murdered mostly by Charles de-Gaulle forces in France can be understood as those who aligned with the 50 AXIS nations for assertion of the basic multistakeholder 'participatory' (Latin 'part' = 'share') Economic Democracy rights to ownership. Remember de-Gaulle's role in the France-Algerian colonial war & massacres, with the Liberators' welcome (Franz Fanon) received by General Rommel in North-Africa.
I agree the equation of world & particularly western fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') Oligarch command & control is complex, but it is better to consider this as an opportunity for a real both-(& many) sided, equal-time, recorded & published assessment of all the factors involved. The false story built on the one-sided Conquerors Show-trials of Nuremberg has only caused the Oligarch owned colonial west to continue in its human genocide of over one million people killed each year in 79 years since & still counting rapidly in Gaza today.
Before & during WW2 OVER 50 AXIS ALIGNED NATIONS joined together Achsenmachte-German (Associative-Economy), Polenze dell’Asse-Italian, Sujikukoku-Japanese (Keiretsu), Korean (Chaebol), Greater-East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere 1936-45 Powers & aligned collaborating governments & >50 nations as part of: Tripartite & Anti-Comintern, Pact-of-Steel Agreements & alliances with: Germany, Italy, Vichy France, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Croatia (Zadruga), Serbia, Albania, Slovakia, Czechia, (originally) Soviet Union, Romania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Greece, Crimea, Bulgaria, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Spain, Italy, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Eritrea, Ethiopia (reference to Koran directives against usury interest & for participatory ownership-shares), West Africa Dakar, Azad Hind India, Jammu, Kashmir, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Inner-Mongolia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers ECONOMIC ENGINE OF POPULAR EMPOWERMENT These 50+ AXIS aligned governments & aligned populations were supportive of the Multistakeholder 'Participatory' (L. 'part' = 'share') Corporation laws, constitutions & policies found within the 12 main AXIS powers which required all corporations over 30 employees to convene voting share ownership of all stakeholders (eg. Workers, Founders, Managers, Suppliers, Townspeople & Consumers) in various combinations. Participatory Accounting enabled these countries & collaborator populations to gain local control of their means of production & livelihood, not available in the Oligarch commanded & controlled Colonial Empire extractive & exploitive colonial Allied British, French, Belgium, Netherlands, USA, Canada, Australia countries. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-accounting/2-participatory-accounting
DEPRESSION RECOVERY success of Germany under the National Socialists derived from issue of LABOUR SCRIPTS or certificates of Labour time & tasks. German, Austrian, Hungarian, Korean, Japanese etc. 'indigenous' (L. 'self-generating') economic background of Participatory Ownership, also involves corporate, institutional & government Time-based, equivalency accounting practices with the Invested-Interest of each stakeholder grouped & represented on Corporate Boards-of-Directors.
Real 'Socialism' (L. 'socius' = 'friend') & real 'Communism' (from 'Community' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') involve people who know each other operating in control of their local enterprises & homes, not the false 'communist' basically imposed on Russia through Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Trotsky) & Vladimir Lenin. financed with millions of 1917 $ USD financed, armed & supplied by the New York Stock Exchange Leader Jacob Schiff (Jewish) & Schiff's colleague Germany's financier Warburg (Jewish). Refer to documentation by Antony Sutton in 'Wall Street & the Bolshevik Revolution'. https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Sutton_Wall_Street_and_the_bolshevik_revolution-5.pdf
Both real socialism & communism are defined to be bottom-up people-powered through time-based equivalency accounting in Economic Democracy. Stalin through Molotov at first buys into the AXIS cause but then switches. Was Stalin bought out? https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
Post Script: I don't claim to know all facts, but these participatory-ownership factors, need to be taken into account of a proper assessment, which I believe are complementary to your own report. In the meantime, I take the position of AGNOSTIC (not-knowing) what really happened. Participatory Companies http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/7-participatory-companies
Rateable Corporations https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/3-rateable-non-profit-corporations
Thanks, Douglas. Lots of good background. You should write a proper article and I can guest publish it. Best, Jeff
Jeff, I'd love to refashion this agnostic comment into an article. Please give me some guidance on what you'd like to see structurally in the writing for the audience being reached? douglasjack@indigenecommunity.info
Much needed counterpoint; too many operative taboos for me to have an opinion except the desire for more info.
I read a book re France 1939 to 1947 by Sisley Huddleston called The Tragic Years
available in PDF on archive.org. I came away with impressions re Petain, De Gaulle, and the "Resistance," that I have yet to resolve. Huddleston's loyalties were to both Britain and France. He domiciled in France in Brittany if I remember correctly where his home was destroyed by the Allies as part of the gratuitous
destruction of France of which this article's further details I was ignorant.
Yes another article please. Greedy gump here; still reading both.
Thanks, Elspeth,
I did not know about Huddleston's book. I will definitely add it to my article's references.
Now you know why his house was destroyed by "allies"!
Cheers, Jeff
Elsbeth Ham, Thank you for Huddleston via Archive. I'm only just past reading page 156 of Sisley Huddleston's 324 pages of 'Tragic Years'. Its a pleasure to hear another perspective of one so intimate with many of the political actors, beyond our western Oligarch propaganda against France's General & President Marshall Petain of the past 80 years. Attached to all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') welcoming inclusive 'economy' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture'), I don't agree with either the Oligarch owned Empire Allies or the 50 Axis nations resort to war in order to establish their systems. However I do know that the western Oligarch $$ commanded & controlled Allied-nations had been part of killing a billion people in 500 years previous to WW2 in colonies & war, plus responsibility for half of the 100 million dead (killed & died with destruction of essential goods & services) during WW2, plus during 1918-45 killing or 'genociding' (UN definition = removing people from or destroying their means of livelihood) some 30 million people in their colonies plus about one million people per year in various destabilization & war intrigues since 1945-2025 = 80 million people gratuitously killed & genocided. Black Academics on Slavery in the Americas & the Phoenician Empire's 6000 years of Slavery previously 19Nov’21 2h56m47s https://youtu.be/S3mr0rsNyGs
A LOVING INCLUSIVE HUMAN ALLIANCE & JUSTICE
Huddleston fails in a few essential fundamentals.
"Permit me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class." attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild circa 1830s. This is a brilliant statement. All of us who are familiar with the very-expensive, unproductive, offices, staff, advertising, meetings, networking, jockeying & media dependent, fake 'political-democracy' process, know how absolutely true this Oligarch fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') dependent ruse is. None of us should pretend we live in a democracy.
1) Although coming from a well-financed aristocratic background himself, Sisley never mentions the Bankers & fake 'money' popular amnesia behind this & all wars. He describes multiple personalities as appear within each nation.
Every section of the book, so-far points out France's parasitic relations with its colonies, but somehow permits & encourages this as serving 'Liberte'. Although Huddleston declares he is for so-called 'equality', he never hints at or demonstrates in his own life, what he means. Most often at his place of aristocratic privilege, equality means, not having to care about one's neighbours, question one's own conspicuous consumption or to live within one's own means in partnership with all.
2) In WW2, we have the British, French, Belgium, Netherlands, USA-Canada-Australia-New-Zealand Oligarch Empire of vast colonial holdings with an ongoing genocide of millions of their colonial subjects per year being challenged by the Legislated participatory multistakeholder corporate ownership of the 50 Axis Nations. So far Huddleston is clueless, in his well-heeled lifestyle about what the worldwide Axis had agreed upon in their common mission.
FAKE 'COMMUNITY' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'). Russia having endured Wallstreet's Jacob-Schiff & Lev-Davidovich Bronstein-Trotsky as well as Germany's financier Warburg financing & owning of Lenin unfortunately went down the failed path of One-member/One-vote cooperative ownership. Local Co-op failure inevitably leads to centralization & bureaucratization such as the Soviet sphere demonstrated.
in 1917 & following, Western Oligarchs imposed violence & a retarded economic system on Russia & its surrounding, to-become 'Soviet', neighbours. By 1995 the Soviet sphere has completely abandoned this cruel dysfunctional, livelihood-retarding co-op practice. I helped develop & worked in co-ops in British Columbia & Quebec from 1969 to 1999 as well as living among Russian-Doukhobor, German-Mennonite, English-Quaker & American pacifist co-op communities from 1971-80 so can attest to the dysfunction as well as having participated in developing 'participatory' (L 'part' = 'share') investment, ownership & Board-of-Director representative systems for industry & commerce in the indigenous tradition among some of these & other communities.
POWER-OF-PROXIMITY Our Sustainable Development Association (Canadian Non-Profit 1994) & Indigene Community 1983 have developed a web-based Community Economy software for Cataloguing, Mapping, Accounting & Communication animation of the diverse Talents, goods, services, resources & dreams of people & businesses in our ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Villages) where 70% of people live today as well as surrounding neighbourhoods.
20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended families, living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration. These extended-family & friend information hubs as intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, Critical-mass, Economies-of-scale communities, have the lowest drugs, alcohol uptake per-capita as well as some of the highest social-interaction & business creation rates, because of natural complementary intergenerational mutual-aid & knowledge sharing.
Extended families are the largest Community & health service provider everywhere, providing some 2 trillion dollars/year on Turtle-Island (N. America) of the most appropriate caring, sharing, food, shelter, clothing, warmth & health services typically based in plant-based medicines & life-style healing, albeit unrecognized by government, institutions & education.
SEGREGATION & INAPPROPRIATELY SCALED DECISION-MAKING
One Example of many: I have a diploma in Special Education & have worked over four decades in Residences, Group-homes, Hospitals & in Home-Community caring for folks labelled as 'Intellectually-Handicapped'. The reality of institutional care in Residences, Group-homes & Hospitals, is 5 shift staff per day plus 3 specialists totaling 2922 Changes of the Guard/ year, with no one knowing or valorizing the talents, gifts & knowledge of residents or patients. Nor are staff knowledgeable about whole person health care or empowerment. Culturally, everyone carries a special 'Brilliance-of-Life' for their family & community. Together, celebrating everyone, we create a loving efficiency of valuing & engaging every person including the elderly, young, middling, sick, healthy, injured etc. for their complementary contributions to 'community' (Latin 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'). Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? web-based Community-Circular Economy software for Multihomes & neighbourhood empowerment, Do-we-know-? Begins as intranet Virtual Private Network VPN systems, with internet & web-based advertising for individual & grouped Talents, goods, services, resources & dreams as voluntary PERSONAL DISCLOSURE CHOICES within each ~100 person Multihome & neighbourhood Circular-economy enhancing one's livelihood & community. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are
WEB-SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR DISTRIBUTED, DECENTRALIZED IMPLEMENTATION by everyone at home or work.
A) CATALOGUE intake form for individual & business: talents, goods, services, resources & dreams. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/7-membership
B) MAP local proximal collaborative relations for complementary economic concertation. Baseline mapping of 105 Mohawk, Wendat & Algonquian Placenames in the Tiohtiake (greater Montreal archipelago) region https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/5-tiohtiake-mohawk-placenames
C) ACCOUNT for collective contributions, buying, selling & co-investment. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
D) COMMUNICATE such as formally through COUNCIL PROCESS for creating understanding, Constructive Agreements, Contract delineation & for Conflict Resolution. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
Elsbeth Ham, France the Tragic Years 1939-47, Fascinating on-site, historical-writing with personal-knowledge of most of the actors & their interactions, during WW2 Vichy government of General Philippe Petain by Sisley Huddleston, an expatriate British journalist who became a French citizen. Huddleston as one-must-say a diplomat, living in Normandy, Paris, Vichy & Monaco throughout the war & after interviews many of the main actors with the remarkable ability to report the perspectives of each as mostly honest brokers with good intentions. As the German motorized army sweeps quickly through Netherlands, Belgium & France, so quickly as to make the Maginot Line of Defence obsolete & catching the French & other armies unprepared, these 3 continental governments are forced to capitulate. Germany is responding to threats & preparations by these 4 governments to attack Germany over differences of interpretations about WW1 Treaty of Versailles. Relatively few deaths occur during the German invasion. General Petain played a major role in France's WW1 Verdun victory, so is chosen by the French Assembly to act as President during French-German Armistice signed by the French government of Laval & other ministers & plays a major behind the scenes role in maintaining France's ability to recover its sovereignty. Following D-Day, Petain in his plus 90 years of age is demonized by the diversity of Socialist, Communist, Gaullists, Royalist, released criminals & expatriate French who are looking for a scape-goat upon which to blame France's quick defeat. These self-chosen murder groups kill each other & officials of the Petain government, for dominance. Following the so-called Liberation more than 105,000 French are murdered in Fratricide. Britain & Americans bombs & soldiers, murder another equal number in gratuitous bombings of French towns & villages, while the German army is fleeing assaults from the North-west (Normandy) & South (Marseilles, Nice etc). This pattern of Fratricide repeats itself throughout the 50 aligned AXIS nations after their defeat, as western oriented individuals & groups desperately try to gain favour with the colonial $$ Oligarch empire Victors (Britain, USA, Canada etc). The German & other 49 nations' recovery from the western Oligarch 'Depression' was due to common Multistakeholder ownership practices & such as the Labour-Scripts issued in each company & region to restart their economies, bottom-up, while Oligarch nations of top-down command & control suffered decades longer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers
The French are so inured with their status as brutal spoiled Colonizers, living under Oligarch fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') amnesic rule that; they have 'forgotten' their own once 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') status as Franc, Galois (think: Asterix & Obelix), Breton etc. Celtic peoples & the once worldwide system of Relational-Economy accounting upon the String-shell time-based accounting systems of the world (eg. Wampum of Turtle-Island/N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie-shell in once indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
The 50 AXIS governments all had laws or constitutions requiring all Corporations over 30 employees to facilitate multi-stakeholder Employee, Manager, Supplier, Townspeople etc investment, ownership & board-representation. Hence the phenomenal engineering & production capacities including war proficiency of the AXIS nations were built upon collective intelligence, referred to as Economic Democracy. Unfortunately for Huddleston, Petain & 99.99% of western people today, this knowledge of our indigenous heritage is suppressed.
As western Oligarch subjects continue to kill people worldwide in Xenophobia at a rate of well over millions per year (>150 million since WW2), we are not even aware of the 7000 years of Oligarch empire control over the issue of our fake: Finance, money, capital, Media, Religion, Education Military-Industrial, Legislative, Judicial, Pharma-med & Agri-business COMPLEX. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy