ABSTRACT
The chapter elaborates on the foundations of the model of open cooperativism. The model of open cooperativism places commons-based peer production at the center of multi-stakeholder collaboration between civil society organizations producing immaterial and material commons, ethical market entities adding exchange value on top of the commons use value and a partner state enabling commons-based peer production through funding, legislation, infrastructures, education, and so on. The chapter lays out the economics and politics of the commons as the foundational stones of the counter-hegemony of open cooperativism vis-à-vis neoliberalism.
