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C·L·I·G

The Commoner

collective · decentralized · internationalist · gradual

Libertarian socialism

Shared resources and federated co-operatives, grown rather than declared, and indifferent to which flag they are grown under. The commons is an institution to be built and defended, not a phase to be passed through.

What the four letters mean

C Ownershipcollectivenot private (P)
L Controldecentralizednot centralized (A)
I Horizoninternationalistnot national (N)
G Methodgradualnot rupture (R)

Where this has shown up

HistoricallyMutualism after Proudhon, the commons movement, Ostrom’s governed commons, platform co-ops.

All sixteen

Columns: collective → private. Within each half, internationalist then national.

CAIRThe Permanent Revolutionary CANRThe Vanguard PAIRThe Shock Therapist PANRThe Strongman CAIGThe World Planner CANGThe Planner PAIGThe Technocrat PANGThe National Conservative CLIRThe Anarchist CLNRThe Syndicalist PLIRThe Exit Capitalist PLNRThe Secessionist CLIGThe Commoner CLNGThe Municipalist PLIGThe Free Trader PLNGThe Classical Liberal

Rows: centralized → decentralized. Within each half, rupture then gradual.

This page is not a diagnosis

The Commoner is a box, and a box is a compression. It keeps the sign of each score and throws away the magnitude — so two people filed here can sit at opposite ends of it, and somebody two points the other side of a cut line has more in common with this type than with their own. The four axes are real. The lines drawn across them are a decision somebody made.

The point

Cutline will tell you the margin it used to hand you each of your four letters — including when one of them was a coin toss. That is the part every other sixteen-type system leaves out.

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