Library Socialism

Description

"Usufruct is the key to library socialism - and how it can radically change the nature of a capitalist society into one that works for the people of that society instead of just a few.

Unlike the myth of capitalism, which claims to compensate workers for their labor fully, the actual nature of capitalism is that ownership by the capitalist class of tools, the means of production, and sufficient resources to keep workers alive while they create goods and services allows them to steal part of the worker's labor and claim it as their property (see surplus value).

Library socialism instead offers another means of distributing goods, both capital and consumer. It provides a way to make us all much more affluent on average, distributing goods and services to where they solve the most needs, not just to where they generate the most profits for a few. And by sharing items, it means that fewer items can satisfy the wants of a society completely.

In the simplest terms, the right of usufruct means you can use things, but you cannot deny them to others when you're not using them."

(https://librarysocialism.org/)

Tools

• meansofproduction

"A free as in beer application to manage a distributed library, especially a library of things. Why? Because there's no need for every person to buy every tool."

All code currently can be found at https://github.com/Means-Of-Production