[Iyf-ct] really really free market - communitree

[pvh at webbedfeet.co.za]

Correct me if i'm wrong, but i thought the communitree was a paid market?
As i recall, weren't they ve people who organised the event in palmer road
where even kids stuff cost money? I think its really import to keep the
distinction between the rrfm and any kind of capitalist market. Property,
even the property peddled by small capitalists, is theft. Every commodity
transaction hides the violence that underlies "value" in capitalist
society. That's why even the idea of people putting stickers on things (as
has been proposed on fb) makes me edgy. In fact, i had rather a problem
with edie when she came back from the rrfm: everything she got she
jealously regarded as hers and only hers. Thus the items had resumed their
status as private property, something the stickers would also seem to
imply. So, the rrfm is meant to undermine the logic of property /
commodity, to provide a space with a different ethic. Its already hard to
do so when people enter the space on an unequal basis, but mixing in any
way with a commodity market (so if you come along with no money, you may
have this, not that) would be a disaster. Provocatively, i'd suggest that
communitree be invited to abolish themselves! Their existence is simply a
testament to the misery of life (and the holding hostage of creativity)
under capitalism.

Peter
p.s. Sorry for the lack of structure, writing this from my phone while at
a work conf in jozi
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> On one level it's brilliant and I like it a lot, but my biggest concern is
> that the whole thing is being absorbed in to the whole Muizenberg Hippie
> thing - which is really cool but has no politics and without sounding too
> judgemental is very middle class with limited to no real connection with
> the broader working class. Whilst our flyer is a good flyer, I think we
> need to start bringing the politics in otherwise we face the danger of it
> become or beeing seen as a charity like thing... I was thinking last night
> that I should find some stuff to read but what else can we do - role play,
> some kind of education exercise... What does everyone else think? I also
> think we should all wear our NOPE t-shirts or other t's with political
> statements... Oh hell, clutching at straws here... My yoga teacher also
> said she woudl spread teh message through Commmunitree etc. networks
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> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:09:42 +0200
> From: megatrops at gmail.com
> To: iyf-ct at lists.resist.ca
> Subject: [Iyf-ct] really really free market - communitree
>
> hi guys
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> claire homeward of the communitree events that take place in muiznbrg
> village asked this:
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> Loved the free market - will def be at the next one....
> I wonder if you would like to make the free market part of the Communitree
> Heart space week happening from 14th - 19th Dec? Maybe there could be a
> section of the space that runs as a free market the whole week? And then
> we can donate everything that is left over. You could have some info about
> it up on the wall.
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> any thoughts on that?
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> meg
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