Solidarity contribution — pooling
As ecological, social, and democratic crises deepen, one question remains central: how can we build emancipatory forms of organization without repeating the logic we contest? This requirement for consistency between means and ends is not simply an organizational concern, but touches on the very nature of any prospect for social transformation.
It is in this spirit that we are clarifying the terms for joining L’Adventice, a collective committed to the exploration and dissemination of social ecology, with a view to creating a self-governing institution supported by a communalist movement. This clarification is part of a broader reflection on commitment, the material conditions of collective practices, and the need to dissociate financial contribution from political legitimacy.
Why a solidarity contribution?
Any collective initiative involves material costs: digital tools, hosting, publications, logistics, meetings. Recognizing this reality does not mean placing money at the center, but rather questioning politically how these expenses are covered.
As a guide, and without this constituting a financial objective, the minimum operating budget currently observed—smoothed over the last two years—is in the order of €600 to €700 per year.
If new projects or initiatives were to emerge collectively, it would of course still be possible to consider one-off forms of expanded pooling, for example via participatory and solidarity-based financing mechanisms (HelloAsso or other platforms).
Rather than a fixed and mandatory membership fee, L’Adventice relies on a solidarity-based contribution based on voluntary pooling.
Free pricing, free access, and no strings attached
Contributions are free: each person is free to determine, according to their means, the amount they wish to pay, with no minimum threshold or implicit standard. Free access is entirely possible.
This contribution does not impose any conditions. It does not determine participation, involvement, or position within the collective, nor does it confer any special status.
This principle aims to avoid a common pitfall: the transformation of material support into a criterion for membership or a marker of legitimacy. From a communalist perspective, commitment cannot be indexed to financial capacity. Legitimacy comes from participation and collective activity.
Prefiguration and political coherence
Material conditions are never neutral. Experimenting with a logic of pooling resources at a free price is a prefigurative approach: attempting, on a modest scale, practices compatible with a political imagination based on autonomy, direct democracy, and collective trust.
Those who can contribute support the existence of shared tools; those who cannot participate fully without feeling indebted or marginalized. This choice stems from a simple conviction: to refuse to allow money to become a structuring principle of collective legitimacy.
Joining L’Adventice
Joining L’Adventice means above all taking part in a collective dynamic: reading, discussing, questioning, criticizing, proposing, contributing to reflections and experiments. It is not a passive membership, but a space for participation.
In a context marked by the commodification of social relations and the exhaustion of traditional political forms, experimenting with other modes of organization is already a political gesture.
Joining L’Adventice means participating in a broader perspective: the construction of an institutional communalist movement based on self-organization, autonomy, direct democracy, mutual aid, and solidarity, and on the capacity of societies to reclaim their own ways of life.
In this dynamic, those who wish to become more involved in the theoretical and editorial aspects of the collective work will be able, through exchanges, reflections, and shared practices, to offer their participation in the Atelier, the editorial and reflective heart of L’Adventice.
The solidarity contribution at a price of your choice is only one aspect of this. Nevertheless, it expresses a central idea: the value of political participation is not measured in monetary units, but in the ability to think, act, and establish together.
Joining us also means participating in solidarity pooling—at a price of your choice:
Note: The Social Ecology and Communalism Workshop is responsible for the coordination and editorial work of L’Adventice.