A POSTCAPITALIST PARADIGM: THE COMMON GOOD OF ...

practices of Good Living, and through the peasants’ own mediations.
They can be especially renewed starting from the rediscovery, in the forbidden
and repressed history of their millenary and traditional peoples,
of values that may serve as new foundations for the processes of constitutional
re-foundation. They can also be inspired and have the lucidity
and courage to overcome what has led them to capitalist productivity
and consumerism, by building on practices developed in different territories
and by reconquering popular sovereignty and new ways of production,
distribution and consumption, now marked by principles of
cooperation, solidarity and complementarity.
In fact, Good Living and peasant cultures are practices followed by many
peoples, and they are, for that reason, proposals resting on solid ground,
even when they present innovative forms of relations among human beings,
with the rest of the living beings and with the land. They, certainly,
have to do with concrete processes of socialization, without being socialism.
They reach deeper and more coherently in many of the socialist
and communist promises. They also have to do with democracy, challenging
it to distance itself from the interests copied in the private appropriation
of natural goods, of knowledge and capacities to produce
value; to recognize collective subjects, and not only individuals; to practice
political organization services based on authority and not on power
originated by wealth, corruption and opportunistic falsehood ; to prefer
decisions taken through direct consultations to popular sovereignty, preventing
the representations from using to their own advantage and to
that of dominant groups, the power granted to them.
Actually, those democratization processes in all the dimensions of existence
will lead human societies to not submit to dominant groups any
more, since the only power that all men and women should be submitted
to is that of the land, and to popular power. To popular power, indeed,
because it is the only sovereign, and to the power of Mother Earth because
it was she the one who, in trillions of years, created the environment
that made life possible and preserves it, so her rights should be
regenerated, respected and guaranteed through new and filial relationships
of human beings with her.
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