Collectivity As an Alternative Form of Interaction

It is an understatement that society is living a severe period of crisis regarding various and diverse aspects of it. Starting from the way humans interact between each other, to the way they interact with what surrounds them, it is really easy to find crashes that could, eventually, end with our life the way we know it.

However, there is still some hope. Throughout the world, there are groups of people developing alternative lifestyles that try to take care of basic social needs, as well as the way they use the available natural and economic resources.

We are talking about communities who gather and start common lives based on values such as collectivity and care. From the starting point of several feminist theorizations, they pretend to develop sustainable ways of living, in the broad sense in which sustainability can be understood, to get lives that are really worth living.

For this task, they replace nuclear families for bigger self-selected groups, in which the main focuses are, on the one hand, to create strong and long-lasting support networks that fight against social inequality and, on the other hand, to respond to other several problems that capitalism has created. Regarding this last issue, their lifestyle seeks critical thinking that leads to cooperativism, self-management and self-supply, as well as avoiding materialism, private ownership and the exploitation of nature.