“The future is always all around us, waiting, in moments of transitions, to be born in moments of revelation.
No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us.
We know only that it is always born in pain.”
— J. Michael Strazynski
One of the most frequent accusations of previous proto-accessist(resource-based economy) groups is their total lack of a transition plan, of how to reach from here to there.
More frequently, it can be summed up as:
“Automation is going to kill the economy, something something collapse, and then we are all going to live in our little automated garden of Eden.”
Such vagueness, as well as the ossification of such groups, simply waiting until the system is here, has resulted in ideological drift, the collapse of social reach, and ultimately becoming forgotten, ironically, just as automation and AI is starting to impact the global economy, and the livelihood of billions.
This is one of the reasons why the Accessist International was formed, to be a organizing force, backing the establishment of open access communities and political parties, in order to test and bring to the day to day life, as well as turn accessism into a voice on the political scene, showing an alternative world is possible.
Now, you may ask how we can secure the actual infrastructure, what marxists used to call “the means of production” for the benefit of the common man.
Maybe:
- A decentralized algorithmic DAO buys up collapsed corporations with the extra margin from automated industry.
- Maybe communities reclaim abandoned infrastructure and put it in a trust.
- Maybe some eccentric billionaire grows a conscience.
- Or some movement retakes it by force and guards it from corporate-state capture.
Frankly, how the transition happens is less important than what happens next.
And that happens is the creation of an automated, scientific, open economy where the engines of production are transparently balanced with the planet’s resources and consumer needs, without requiring major human oversight or labour.
The Accessist International does not imagine this transition as smooth or painless.
The old system will resist with every tool it has, from propaganda to surveillance.
There will be struggle, confusion, and attempts to force automation into the service of profit and control. But history is not on its side.
Just as feudalism collapsed when capitalism made it obsolete, capitalism will collapse when accessism renders it irrelevant.
Now, you might ask:
Who runs this new system?
Who distributes all these resources?
Not a state. Not a corporation. Machines. Code. Algorithms. Open-source infrastructure.
We already trust technology to handle complex systems, from weather forecasting to air traffic control to global shipping.
Why not let it coordinate food distribution?
Or housing logistics?
Or energy grids?
But unlike capitalist systems, where this tech is owned and weaponized by the few, a Open-Access Economy is transparent, distributed, and anti-authoritarian.
No one owns it.
Everyone shapes it.
And if that sounds like a dream, remember: much of the technology is already here.
The capitalist class built it to automate us out of work, but we can use it to automate capitalism out of relevance.