In the journal Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, Mathieu Dufour of Université du Québec en Outaouais and Simon Tremblay-Pepin of Saint Paul University have published an article that argues that the postcapitalist model of Commonism‘s lack of use of money leads to it suffering multiple economic issues and that including a form of money would resolve these issues.
You can find the article’s abstract below:
This article reviews Commonism, a postcapitalist model developed by Stefan Meretz and Simon Sutterlütti (2023, 2025) (Gerdes et al. 2023) based on a decentralized network of commons. As this model puts forward the idea that a postcapitalist economy should avoid using money at all, we focus specifically on how economic coordination can be realized in Commonism. We first present how we understand the functioning of Commonism, to then underline issues generated by the absence of the money form. These issues are about human volition, information, social arbitration, and temporality. We end by suggesting a way to domesticate money that would resolve the problems we have identified without doing much harm, in our view, to the main features of the model.
You can find out more about the article here.
A green open access manuscript of this article will be available here after the 1-year embargo imposed by Springer Nature.