Community Building for the 21st Century

In the 21st Century, we have moved into an era in which there are an increasing number of contradictions in the capitalist system.

On the one hand, profit is unable to be accumulated by the corporate elites in the same ways as before as we continually push the environmental and economic limits of the system. As a result, the corporate elites are now accumulating wealth through taking over the political sphere and snapping up the bargain prices offered for public utilities — amounting basically to a form of theft from the public.

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On the other hand, a new or parallel form of capitalism appears to be arising in the form of establishing businesses that are aimed at producing “social benefit”.

But there is another reaction to corporate plunder in the shape of a movement aimed at pulling community back together as a response to the individualising and community-destroying trends of neoliberal corporate capitalism. In one of my recent articles, I argued that the establishment of new forms of community are a way forward in creating a better society.

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So … how do we do this?

Well, it is important that people actually work together to solve problems in their local community, but also to work proactively to participate in creating better planned communities for the benefit of local people. The problem, is that your average everyday person has plenty of ideas about what is needed in their local community, but no idea about how to actually do something about it.

How good would it be to have a program that would not only show, but would also “walk people through” the entire process of planning, implementing, and maintaining a project that would assist in improving local communities?

Ultimately, this is the essence of the work I do at The Diogenes Method: https://commdevmatchmaker.podia.com/the-diogenes-method-develop-your-own-community-project