But are you a communist? Complementary investigation on the commons
According to David Bollier, one of the most renowned specialists on the phenomenon of the commons: “[...] a common is a resource + a community + a set of social protocols” (Bollier, 2014, p. 27). This article seeks to define these “social protocols” through an essentially sociological research perspective. We propose an ideal-type of commons and then use this as a departure point to explore several Montreal organizations in an attempt to better define a process that we refer to as communalization. Secondly, we discuss the contributions and limitations of this process from the perspective of an interstitial strategy for exiting capitalist society (Olin Wright 2017), particularly in relation to two types of social organizations that are similar to the commons: cooperatives and intentional communities. We see self-management as an important feature of communalization that is often overlooked by social theorists studying the social phenomenon of the commons.