decommodification
Rights replacing commerce
Decommodification is the process of removing something from market forces—making goods or services available outside the cash economy.
The term appears most often in discussions of social policy, where it describes providing essentials like healthcare, housing, or education as rights rather than products to be purchased: The welfare state represents a partial decommodification of basic needs.
The concept opposes commodification, which turns things into market goods.
Unity among allies
- cooperationJoint action toward shared aims
- communeShared-living community
- mutualismTwo-way biological benefit
- communalismGroup-centered social organization
syndicalism · collective ownership · public ownership · worker cooperatives · commons · mutual aid · shared resources · cooperativism
Converting to commerce-driven systems
- privatizationState sells public assets
- neoliberalismPro-market, anti-regulation ideology
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- profit motiveDrive to earn money
enclosure · commons · public goods · financialization · alienation · reification · exploitation · deregulation
Guaranteed medical access nationwide
- public housingSubsidized homes for poor
- social securityPublic financial protection programs
- public educationCommunal, tax-funded schooling
- basic incomeUnconditional regular payment
public transit · water rights · social services · public utilities · rent control · price controls · rationing · subsidies
Intentional economic contraction movement
- sufficiencyState of being enough
- anti-consumerismOpposition to excessive acquisition
- localismPreference for nearby things
- slow movementLeisurely pace of travel
circular economy · regenerative · land reform · seed saving · community gardens · overconsumption · planned obsolescence
solidarity
Unity among allies
- cooperationJoint action toward shared aims
- communeShared-living community
- mutualismTwo-way biological benefit
communalism · syndicalism · collective ownership · public ownership · worker cooperatives · commons · mutual aid · shared resources · cooperativism · collective action
marketization
Converting to commerce-driven systems
- privatizationState sells public assets
- neoliberalismPro-market, anti-regulation ideology
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
profit motive · enclosure · commons · public goods · financialization · alienation · reification · exploitation · deregulation · austerity
universal healthcare
Guaranteed medical access nationwide
- public housingSubsidized homes for poor
- social securityPublic financial protection programs
- public educationCommunal, tax-funded schooling
basic income · public transit · water rights · social services · public utilities · rent control · price controls · rationing · subsidies · entitlements
degrowth
Intentional economic contraction movement
- sufficiencyState of being enough
- anti-consumerismOpposition to excessive acquisition
- localismPreference for nearby things
slow movement · circular economy · regenerative · land reform · seed saving · community gardens · overconsumption · planned obsolescence
- welfare statewelfare spending, social welfare, social safety net, safety net, public benefits
- Burning Manplaya, burners, art installations, gifting, leave no trace
- post-scarcityabundance, plenty, surplus, cornucopia, sufficiency
decommodificationcommodification
Transforming into sellable goods
marketization · commercialization · privatization · commoditization · monetization
decommodificationcommodification
Transforming into sellable goods
privatization · enclosure · corporatization · denationalization · deregulation
commodity, commodities, commodious, commodore, commodify, commodification, commodified, commodifying