Bread Constitution
Our shared purpose
Section titled “Our shared purpose”Bread Cooperative is empowering the struggle for a progressive and equitable future. We see that the political left is starting to actualise the value of blockchains and cryptocurrencies as radical and liberating tools that can be added to the toolsets of any political collective. We want to build an infrastructure of funding mechanisms, toolkits, and networks of support that our comrades can plug into. Bread Cooperative is assembling a foundation on which post-capitalist projects can build, sustain, endure, and win the fight for a fair and just society.
The ultimate challenge we face is how to both exist within a capitalist system we don’t agree with, while fighting against it and building towards something better. This means finding sustainable solutions for aligned people so they can commit themselves to pro-social endeavours in the long term, rather than just in short bursts until resources are used up or people burn out.
In order to forge this future into reality, we know that by working together we can go farther. Bread Cooperative is therefore a mutual aid organisation and federation of projects with the purpose of exploring the radical potentials of distributed ledger technologies like blockchains.
Guiding principles
Section titled “Guiding principles”Our guiding principles are the major pillars and values that inform the direction we want to proceed in. Projects and members of the cooperative should adhere to and believe in these principles. Failure to do so may lead to removal from the cooperative.
I: Economic Democracy We strive for an economy in which resources are allocated democratically rather than through market forces or corporate and government manipulation.
II: Mutual Aid We believe in communal solidarity through reciprocal exchange for mutual benefit so everyone can live a dignified life.
III: Transparent Governance Everyone should be able to have a say, and those given power by the community must be accountable for their decisions.
IV: Dual Power We must both combat existing institutions and build parallel grassroots alternatives using the tools we have, because technology without direct social intervention only favours those in power.
Core objectives
Section titled “Core objectives”Our core objectives help inform what the cooperative’s priorities are. They are reviewed and revised regularly by the representative of each member project as priorities change.
- Support the building of technical tools and literacy for leftist projects
- Provide financial sustainability for leftist teams to help them endure insatiable capitalism
- Build a coalition among leftist projects for advising, skill-sharing, and cross-promotion
See the Operational Annex for how these principles are put into practice.