Bolo’bolo
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P.M. Bolo’bolo 1983

What are your thoughts on Bolo’bolo? Is it well known in your circles?

To me, it’s one my literary and theoretical bases that I keep coming back to. Sometimes just to skim trough it and dream :D I see enourmous potential there.

While I know quite a few people that know the book - or at least of it -, it feels like it doesn’t get the attention it deserves.

  • vxnxnt@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sounds pretty interesting, but honestly it just sounds like regular anarcho-communism to me. Maybe it’s a good introduction though?

    • awa@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I understand your view, I think. It might be caused by my brief summary though. Bolo‘bolo differs from ‚traditional‘ anarcho-communism - at least as I understand it - in a key aspect. Or maybe it specifies traditional an-com?

      Besides the new terminology, which allows a fresh approach, I see the difference in the diversity/flexibility of social organizations within the bolos (internal organization may or may not align with traditional an-com notions like collective ownership etc.) as well as these organisations ‚fluidity‘ over time. Each ibu and every group of ibus is/are free to choose their own ideology and value systems. To me this is an interesting approach to solve the tensions individual/community. What fascinates me, is the pragmatism the concept shows by allowing for diverse communities with different internal arrangements to coexist and interact.

      If you know any theorists you advocate this approach, please share :)

      And also its just fun to read and discover whats behind all those new terms :D