Accessist International

“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.” –

Joseph Conrad

Dear Fellow Journeymen,

As fellow anti-capitalist explorers on a global sea wracked by the storms of neo-liberalism and fascism, we recently saw your recent actions, and were shocked by how similar our maps look.

Because when we read your Rethymno Declaration, it sounds like the mutiny of a crew who’ve navigated the same treacherous waters we have, helplessly watched as a ship meant for exploration become anchored in bureaucratic harbors and therefor lose sight of the horizon they set out to reach.

We salute your decision to untangle your ship from the European Pirate Party, and set sail for new shores, when it became clear they were permanently docked in the harbour of neo-liberalism.
It took courage, and we know that, because we made the same journey when we left the ecosystem formed around The Venus Project.

Just like you, we ended up in a situation where our organization stopped moving toward its goals and was just turning in circles, without any wind in their sails, and focused on keeping things the way they were, rather than looking for new opportunities.

Now we’re both out on the open sea, with maps in hand, asking the same question: where should we go from here?

We believe our courses should converge.

The Accessist International wants to propose something that feels both audacious and inevitable: that accessism is the natural evolution of what pirate politics should have been, and that together, we can reach shores neither of us could find alone.

Will you hear us out?

When we read your declaration, it revealed something we recognized immediately, you understand that liberating cyberspace while leaving the physical economy in chains only wins half the battle.

But you’ve also seen that these digital freedoms are hard to value for the common people, when they can’t afford housing, when climate chaos drives migration, when oligarchs extract wealth from increasingly desperate populations.

You wrote that “We need a new social contract… democracy must expand beyond the political system to include the economy, the environment, and technology.”.

That is precisely what we believe in.
Because we’re trying to carry that same spark to the entire economy, to show that the principles powering your digital liberation can organize all of human civilization.

The same network thinking that makes your peer-to-peer systems work, the same open coordination that makes free software thrive, the same distributed intelligence that makes decentralized platforms powerful, these are the same winds can fill different sails.
They can move physical resources, coordinate production, distribute abundance, organize society around human needs rather than artificial scarcity.

A Different Kind of Economy: Cybernetic Coordination

Let us paint you a picture of what makes accessism distinct from the deprecated economic systems of left and right, that you’ve seen either stumble, either:

Imagine an economy that works less like a marketplace and more like the internet itself.

Not the corporate-captured internet of today, but the internet as it was meant to be.
A network where information flows to where it’s needed, where resources route efficiently, where the system self-balances through feedback rather than through the chaos of competition or the rigidity of central command.

This is cybernetic economics. A system that wants real-time tracking of resources and needs, bringing automated coordination that responds to actual data rather than price signals.
Production organized through transparent and toil-less collaboration rather than proprietary, labour-based competition, providing distribution based on access rather than exchange.

The world already works that way in the digital realm.
You know the internet doesn’t auction bandwidth to the highest bidder, it routes packets intelligently, using battle-tested, open protocols, while peer-to-peer networks balance load automatically, without admirals or markets directing traffic.
You know open-source projects don’t compete in markets, they coordinate through visible collaboration, while dead projects fail through simple lack of interest, and not because they didn’t make last year’s quarter.

But what if food, housing, energy, and transportation could flow the same way?
What if we used the computational power you helped liberate to coordinate physical abundance the way we already coordinate digital abundance?

This isn’t some distant shore we’re dreaming of, since the technology exists now.
Sensors can track resources, networks can coordinate globally, while automation can handle complexity that once overwhelmed human capacity, even coordinate an entire economy efficiency, cleanly, and transparently.

We HAVE the vessels and the navigation tools. What we’re missing is enough crew willing to make the voyage.

And your crew has logically drifted ever outward on the sea of liberation.

First you fought for digital freedom, for file sharing, copyright reform and privacy rights. It was essential work, but you were mapping only the shallows.

Then you travelled more into the depth, where you articulated a complete vision of digital liberation: net neutrality, open standards, free software in government, resistance to surveillance capitalism, since you understood that digital freedom requires transforming entire systems, not just winning isolated battles.

Now, with your Rethymno Declaration, you’ve connected digital liberation to physical justice. You’re demanding housing rights, economic equity, environmental protection, true democracy. You’ve seen that freeing cyberspace while leaving people trapped in extractive capitalism is like liberating one island while leaving the archipelago in chains.

Accessism is simply the next leg of our common voyage. For us, it was a realization, that without an open, descentralized project, we ossify and are subject to the whims of unelected councils, while for you, it’s asking if the principles you’ve applied to digital systems:
-open access;
-transparent coordination;
-decentralized collaboration;
-technology serving human needs;

should not guide the entire economy, not as reforms within capitalism’s territorial waters, but as setting course for fundamentally different economic seas?

“Digital rights are not a luxury, they are a prerequisite for social justice, democracy and freedom.” This is the exact bridge between our projects, since you have carried the fight for digital freedom with brilliance, but you also know that digital freedom is fragile without physical justice.

What good is privacy if you cannot afford shelter?

What use is open knowledge if you cannot afford food?

You’ve already rejected the false choice between market capitalism and state socialism. You’ve navigated between the Scylla of failed neoliberalism and the Charybdis of authoritarianism, refusing to be dashed on either rock.

You understand the real choice is between open and closed systems, abundance and artificial scarcity, coordination and competition, human needs and profit extraction.

This is accessist thinking, which is why we are offering you this invitation, to collaborate, and join forces.

And we need this now, since the tides are changing faster than most realize.
Automation is transforming everything, with AI, robotics, and digital coordination replacing human labor at accelerating pace, making the old bargain of capitalism, where you trade your labor for survival, is coming apart at the seams.

Even socialism has no proper answer to this, since we just end up the same endgame, of a handful of owners and technicians owning entire means of production(either alone, or with an incestuous relationship with the State), while hordes of dispossessed, starving people outside, except this time, the politicians and/or owners and/or workers might be the same persons.

You’ve proposed Universal Basic Income, which shows you see the storm brewing.
But UBI is like bailing water while the hull cracks, since it tries to maintain monetary distribution in a world moving toward automated abundance.

Accessism asks a deeper question: if machines can produce plenty, why distribute that plenty through artificial scarcity? Why not organize society around access to what exists, rather than competition for deliberately restricted resources?

Your declaration documents what happens when we don’t ask these questions: housing speculation, exploitative tourism monoculture, gutted social services, climate refugees, surging authoritarianism. These aren’t accidents or aberrations, they’re what an economy based on artificial scarcity inevitably produces as it hits the limits of a finite planet.

The future is automated abundance in service of humanity, or authoritarian extraction, be it cooked in the labs of Silicon Valley’s Dark Enlightenment prophets, or the militarized fascism of the Pentagon, Tel Aviv, or Beijing.

The technology exists for either. The difference is political courage and economic vision.

The Greek Thalassocratic Tradition

There’s something poetically just should the Greeks lead this voyage.

Your ancestors understood that prosperity flows from intelligent networks connecting diverse communities, since they knew wealth comes from coordination, not hoarding, from open exchange, not enclosed extraction.

The same wisdom that made ancient Greek maritime networks thrive is what makes modern digital networks powerful.

And it’s what will make resource-based networks revolutionary.

The word “cybernetics” itself comes your own word to describe steering a ship, kybernao, so what better steersmen to this new ship than greek pirates?

You’ve already proven you understand this in your bones. Your embrace of peer-to-peer technologies wasn’t just about file sharing, it was about recognizing that decentralized networks create more abundance than centralized hierarchies ever could.

It was about bringing the Promethean spark of a cybernetic economy to the digital realm, refusing to be trapped, as you so perfectly wrote, paddling between Scylla and Charybdis – between a failed state and a totalitarian one.

Your maritime ancestors knew that the bravest act isn’t hugging the coastline. It’s sailing beyond sight of land, trusting your instruments and your crew, following the stars to shores your charts say might not exist.

You’ve done it before. In leaving the PPEU, you’ve done it again.

Now we’re asking you to set sail once more, to carry that cybernetic vision from bits to atoms, from digital harbors to the entire physical world, from the liberation of information to the liberation of civilization itself.

The horizon ahead shimmers with possibility. Automated production. Transparent coordination. Needs met through access rather than exchange. Democratic participation in economic decisions. Technology finally serving humanity rather than controlling it.

You’re building the political vessel. We’re building the economic one. But we’ll sail farther together than either fleet could alone.

The winds of technological change are filling the sails whether we set them or not, so the question isn’t whether we’re heading toward post-scarcity economics, since automation and climate crisis guarantee that.

The real question is whether we arrive at authoritarian extraction or coordinated abundance.

You’ve shown you choose abundance. You’ve shown you choose democracy. You’ve shown you choose the open sea over safe harbors when safe harbors become prisons.

So we’re asking, comrade to comrade, sailor to sailor, explorer to explorer:

Will you sail with us?

You have already declared that democracy must expand into the economy, that digital rights are inseparable from social justice, and that struggles cannot remain isolated.
This is exactly what Accessism builds upon.
Together, we can transform not only cyberspace, but the material basis of society, into an open commons where abundance flows to need, not profit.

We believe your Rethymno Declaration points to the same horizon we are sailing toward.
Let us sail together, not as parallel fleets, but as a single crew shaping the course of history.

We’re ready to make the voyage together.

With solidarity and hope,
The Accessist International

The most common objection to accessism, as well as other open-access/resource-based economies is the so-called economic calculation problem.

Now, some in the socialist camp have handwaved it by saying that we can broadly approximate the basic needs of people and communities, so it’s close enough, or that once the workers seize the means of production, actually having to be efficient won’t matter.

Others in the market socialist camp, have instead embraced the free market as the most efficient way of solving the problem, instead opting merely to have coops and/or state-owned companies as the ones producing.

But the answer to the question instead is in the palm of the ones mocking the other’s economics as inefficient and deadly.

And no, I’m not talking about your stereotypical pampered rich kid, criticizing capitalism, and quoting Marx like scripture, on his high-end flagship smartphone, since this applies just as much to the free-market fans, making and sharing memes mocking the former.

Because inside each little computing device, be it some low-end, off-brand smartphone, or the most advanced and distributed supercomputer used by some Bond-esque secret service agency, there are algorithms, kernels, drivers and load balancers, making sure every component of your phone, from power, to input, to processing and networking, is organized gracefully and efficiently.

And before you say that a global economy is different from browsing Youtube, most of the crucial software is the same, be it used by:

• your low-end smartphone;
• your personal computer;
• the server hosting this website;
• the AWS distributed clusters making sure someone’s Amazon Prime Videos are delivered to him and millions of other users with bandwidth optimized across all the regions of the planet;
• some Linux supercomputer currently conducting cutting edge research.

We don’t need to speculate if such a resource-distribution system works or not, or how scalable it is, we know it already does.

Because modern computing already solved a problem that economics has failed to: how to coordinate heterogenous resources without chaos, and without tyranny.

When your laptop runs a program, the CPU, memory, peripherals and network aren’t auctioned off in a bidding war between processes.

You don’t have to decide whether your browser or your music player “deserves” RAM, or if your video has enough funding to use your mouse and keyboard.
The operating system simply balances resources in real time, allocating what is needed, where it is needed.

Now imagine if computing worked like capitalism:

• Every app would need its own budget.
• Every process would negotiate contracts.
• Crashes and bottlenecks would be constant.

Absurd, right? Yet that’s exactly how our economies still work.

In the same way operating systems distribute computing resources efficiently without markets, an Open Access Economy would use cybernetic balancing&feedback, AI, and open data to coordinate physical resources.

• Imagine farms and food distribution that are balanced like computing workloads.
• Imagine housing allocated by need and availability, not speculation.
• Imagine transport coordinated like network routing.
• Image energy shared and stabilized like a power grid, not traded as a commodity.

But such a system introduces a terrifying possibility, of software being softly tweaked to make sure certain groups are marginalized and silenced when it comes to their share of the Earth’s common resources, just like today, in our capitalistic, monetary system, yet also utterly dependent and locked in to the flawed code.

The same situation happened decades ago, in the software community, when they realized the software they bought, even for exorbitant prices, could be restricted, or even rendered useless with one update, or computer/platform switch, leaving them beholden to greedy mega-corporations and regional restrictions.

This led to the creation of open-source, and the free software movement, by people determined in the beliefs that the computer, and it’s software, should belong to the users, not some faceless corporation, stealing and spying on their own customers.

It wasn’t an easy fight.
While individual hackers had to start from scratch, the same corporations that once had such a large market share had way more programmers to pay, and already established software to compete with, as well as plenty of money and influence used to smear the nascent movement.

Yet, year by year, it grew more and more complete, to the extent that you can legally own a computer who’s schematics, both hardware and software, are totally free and transparent, without paying a single dime, except for the actual physical gear.

But just as software was liberated from proprietary code, humanity can liberate the essentials of life from proprietary economics.

Most people today take open source for granted. Your phone, your browser, even the internet itself runs on software created, shared, and maintained freely.

No one pays a license fee every time a packet crosses the web. No one has to bid for CPU cycles just to load a page. The infrastructure works because the knowledge is open and the system balances resources automatically.

But when it comes to the economy: food, housing, transport, energy, we’re still stuck in the equivalent of closed, proprietary code. Access is locked behind paywalls, patents, rents, and markets. The result is artificial scarcity in a world that already has the tools to provide abundance.

Open source has already shown the world that cooperation beats competition when it comes to progress, and accessism extends that principle from code to civilization itself.

The question is no longer whether the idea works.
We already live inside a working proof every time we open a browser or send a message. The only question is whether we will keep treating food, shelter, and energy like licensed software from the 1980s, or finally free them as part of our shared human commons.

The future is open.
The future is access.

“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, and open-source infrastructure that intelligently manage resources for all inhabitants, human and otherwise.
No state, no corporation needed.

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, the brightest prospect for an unparalleled positive impact on human freedom and planetary balance.

“An era may be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.”

— Arthur Miller

In various pages of this site, you may have noticed us using the word Convergence Point at multiple points on this site.

But what is the Convergence Point?

It is the ultimate economic inflection point, the moment at which any economic economy is cheaper to be done by an automated agent, than a human worker.

And because of capitalism’s relent drive to compete and innovate, once the Convergence Point happens, automating away your workforce becomes not only optional, but increasingly mandatory, to maintain one’s economic edge.

Of course, the destabilizing and impoverishing effects of it are bound to happen way before then, since different sectors of the economy automate at different rates, but this is the point at which capitalism becomes physically impossible, and accessism a necessity.

So, what can be done?

Here’s where Accessism comes in. At the Convergence Point, we’ll be forced to confront the obvious: the purpose of production isn’t profit, it’s life itself.

In an open-access economy, abundance is intelligently managed for all inhabitants, human and otherwise, distributed as access rather than rationed by wages or markets.

Automation, networks, and AI are not threats.
They’re the infrastructure of a society where nobody has to earn survival.

At the Convergence Point, the choice will no longer be “capitalism or socialism,” but:

• A system of abundance and freedom
  or
• A system of surveillance and control

Because make no mistake: if capitalism tries to survive past the Convergence Point, it won’t become freer or more efficient, it will become monstrous.
Automation without access means permanent unemployment, universal dependency, and authoritarian control of resources.
A digital feudalism, worse than any dystopia imagined.

And to prevent that, accessism needs to be the political alternative people for the 21st century people need, and for the Accessist International to be a constellation of parties, groups and candidates like you and me, ready to lay a brick at the governance of the future.

A vibrant presence in the political scene and public consciousness, ready for the trials of the future.

One that people can look forward to, as the Convergence Point and it’s chaos steadily approaches.

Will you be part of this political vanguard?

Why Millennials (and Gen Z) Already Get It

For younger generations, the Convergence Point isn’t an abstract debate, it’s lived reality. We grew up in the rubble of 2008, watching wages stagnate while productivity soared. We entered the workforce in the shadow of gig jobs, debt, and rent that devours half a paycheck.

Now AI threatens to displace us entirely.

We were told: “Study hard, work hard, and you’ll succeed.” But the system is clearly rigged. Our generation already knows the old promises are bankrupt. We’re not afraid of questioning capitalism, because it failed us first.

The Convergence Point is where the frustration of a generation meets the opportunity of technology. It’s where we decide whether automation liberates humanity, or enslaves it.

Every era thinks it’s living through history. But this time, we truly are.

The Convergence Point isn’t centuries away, it’s within our lifetimes.

Maybe even this decade.

The only real question is:

When we arrive, will we cling to scarcity and control, or step into abundance and freedom?

The answer will define not just economics, but civilization itself.

The story of economics has always been the story of scarcity.

Markets rationed life by price. States rationed it by bureaucracy.

Both assumed that people had to work in order for society to function.

That age is ending.

Artificial intelligence and automation have torn a hole through the old logic, by making it so tasks, first digital, then increasingly physical, can be created on demand, with zero or little human input.

Production costs in field after field will fall toward zero, provoking both overproduction, and a deflationary spiral.

And with that, the myth of scarcity is breaking down. And when scarcity breaks down, so does capitalism.

Why Markets Cannot Survive Automation

Capitalism, at it’s core, requires a reasonably complex economy, with both producers and employers requiring money to acquire resources for supplies and development, while players on each side also competing with each other for said money.

Yet automation introduces a slowly expanding poison in the whole process, allowing more work to be done without requiring workers, who’s salaries end up first not keeping up with productivity gains, a process which we are already seeing.

Gradually, as more workers start competing for an ever shrinking pool of jobs, wages inevitably start being cut, further reducing revenue for the companies, which now have fewer people even able to afford their products, culminating in the simple paradox of who can how can companies even make money at a certain point, if no one has any money left to buy it from it.

Eventually, the logic of the old system devours itself. To cling to it means spiraling unemployment, authoritarianism, and collapse.

The open-access economy is not a utopia. It is the only system left standing when the others consume themselves.

Tyranny or Liberation

AI will not wait for us to decide. It is already being deployed as a weapon of control — to entrench monopolies, expand surveillance, and tighten borders.

This is the path of techno-feudalism: abundance locked behind walls, controlled by a new aristocracy of corporations and states.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

The same tools can be used to build a civilization where access to food, housing, healthcare, and education is guaranteed, where innovation serves life rather than profit, and where no one is forced into drudgery to survive.

The fork is clear: a future of digital tyranny, or a future of open access.

The Final Revolution

History does not move backward. Just as feudalism, and it’s economical and political giants fell to mercantilist changes, which then gave way under the weight of capitalism, so too will capitalism collapse under the weight of automation.

We stand at the last great turning point. A world without war, poverty, hunger, or debt is no longer a dream.

It is the logical consequence of the tools we already hold in our hands.

The only question is whether we embrace it willingly…or are dragged into it through chaos and collapse.

Either way, the outcome is inevitable.
The open-access economy is coming.

You have taken your first step in being part of the defining political and economical revolution of the 21st century.

Accessism is a new political vision built for the age of abundance — a society where technology and knowledge are used to meet human needs directly, without money, markets, or scarcity.

You can read a fuller introduction here:

What Is Accessism?

Likewise, you can learn more about our mission by checking out our site, and it’s various articles.

We cannot rely on old idea, since the old systems: capitalism, socialism, communism, were all born in an age of scarcity.

They tied survival to labor, rationed life through markets or states, and promised justice through struggle.

But the 21st century, and it’s automation, digital networks, and ecological urgency demand something different, since the future cannot be built on outdated blueprints.

Our goal is to apply the methods of science and technology as the guiding principles of economics, so that war, poverty, hunger, debt, environmental degradation and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but totally unacceptable.

The technology is there, and the recent advancements in computing and AI have made the transition to an open access economy, not only possible, but mandatory, with the only alternative being a steady destabilization and pauperization of society, that we are already seeing, and that will reach it’s peak at Convergence Point, but likely earlier.

And the International is our way of bringing this alternative to reality, a coalition of political parties and emergent organisations and groups, dedicated to spreading awareness and political support for accessism, as the economic alternative the world needs, and that technology finally makes possible.

This is just the beginning.
The Accessist International is where those who refuse to accept artificial scarcity come together.

Here, we will share ideas, build tools, and lay the groundwork for a society free of needless struggle.

Liberation begins with access.