One of the reasons that capitalism is considered to be the best economic paradigm rather than the Commons was because of an influential paper written about half a century ago called the tragedy of the commons.
No, that’s a very misguided view.
Capitalism is considered to be the best economic paradigm because it helped many societies generate huge amounts of wealth in reality.
Some socialist ‘countries’ were successful though, on an economical point of view. Anarchists often refer to revolutionary Spain and the CNT. Although they were ultimately destroyed in war by the alliance of fashism and the moderate left, the economical development boomed during the short Republic life. Even the USSR, which is not usually considered socialist in anarchist circles (see first comment) went from an economy based on agriculture to a huge industrial power in less than 50 years.
No, that’s a very misguided view.
Capitalism is considered to be the best economic paradigm because it helped many societies generate huge amounts of wealth in reality.
hmm, i thin I phrased that poorly. What I meant to say is’X is part of the reason why the Commons was dismissed as an economic paradigm’.
You don’t think the experience of Marxist countries had something to do with that? X-/
Some socialist ‘countries’ were successful though, on an economical point of view. Anarchists often refer to revolutionary Spain and the CNT. Although they were ultimately destroyed in war by the alliance of fashism and the moderate left, the economical development boomed during the short Republic life. Even the USSR, which is not usually considered socialist in anarchist circles (see first comment) went from an economy based on agriculture to a huge industrial power in less than 50 years.