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by Michel Bauwens 23 May '15

23 May '15

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Under, Against, Beyond: Labour and Social Movements Confront a Globalised, Informatised Capitalism <http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/under-against-beyond/>(2011) (c. 1,000 pages of Working Papers, free, from the 1980's-90's). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Patrick Bond <pbond(a)mail.ngo.za> Date: Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:35 AM Subject: [Debate-List] (Fwd) Indigenous + eco-socialist: towards harmony (Hugo Blanco interview) To: "cjn-south-africa(a)googlegroups.com" <cjn-south-africa(a)googlegroups.com>, DEBATE <debate-list(a)fahamu.org> *Counterpunch* May 19, 2015 <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> Share on facebook <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> Share on twitter <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> Share on google <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> More Sharing Services <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> 32 <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> The Survival of the Species From Indigenous Struggle to Ecosocialism by QUINCY SAUL and HUGO BLANCO The epic life of Hugo Blanco requires an epic introduction. None could do better than Eduardo Galeano: “Hugo Blanco was born for the first time in Cuzco, 1934. He arrived in Peru, a country divided in two. He was born in the middle. He was white, but he was raised in Huanoquite, a town where his friends in games and adventures all spoke Quechua. He went to school in Cuzco, where the Indios couldn’t walk on the sidewalks, which were reserved for decent people. Hugo was born for the second time when he was ten years old. He received news from his town, and learned that Bartolome Paz had branded an indigenous peasant with a hot iron. This owner of land and people had branded his initials with fire on the buttocks of a peasant, named Francisco Zamata, because he hadn’t tended well to the cows on his property. This wasn’t so unusual in fact, but that brand marked Hugo forever. And as the years passed, this man who wasn’t Indio started becoming one; he organized campesino unions and paid with beatings, tortures, prisons, harassment and exile his chosen disgrace. . . Hugo Blanco has walked his country backwards and forwards, from the snowy mountains to the dry coasts, passing through the humid jungles where the natives are hunted like beasts. And wherever he has gone, has has helped the fallen to get up, the silenced to speak. The authorities accused him of being a terrorist. They were right. He sowed terror among the owners of lands and peoples. He slept under the stars and in cells occupied by rats. He went on fourteen hunger strikes. . . More than once, the prosecutors demanded the death penalty, and more than once the news was published that Hugo had died. And when a drill opened up his skull, because a vein had burst, Hugo awoke in panic that the surgeons may have changed his ideas. But no. He continued to be, with his skull sewed up, the same Hugo as always. His friends are sure that no transplant of ideas would work. But we did fear that that Hugo would wake up sane. But here he is – he continues to be that beautiful madman who decided to be Indio, even though he wasn’t, and wound up being more Indio than anyone.” — Eduardo Galeano, excerpts from passages quoted in Lucha Indiegna #105, May 2015 *Quincy Saul: **We read in Lucha Indigena <http://www.luchaindigena.com/> and other publications that in Peru today roughly 20% of the national territory has been ceded to foreign mining interests. We read also about the Guardians of Lakes <http://www.somoselmedio.org/blog/guardianes-de-las-lagunas-resistencia-caja…>, and the people resisting mining in Cajamarca <http://upsidedownworld.org/main/peru-archives-76/4823-perus-conga-mine-conf…>. What are the lessons for the world that are emerging from these struggles?* *Hugo Blanco:* We all learn from the struggles in Peru and in the rest of the world. From the 4th to the 8th of August of 2014, we were gathered in Cajamarca weaving international alliances. The dominant system’s means of communication hide our struggles or lie about them. They are spokespeople for the enemies of humanity and nature. So one of our great tasks is to broadcast what is really happening. The diffusion of our news awakens national and international solidarity. This international solidarity is manifested in actions of all kinds: Declarations, conferences, publications, public gatherings, and marches, all of which seek to stop the attack on the defenders of Water and Life. “Lucha Indigena” has economic limitations – we could do much more if we had more resources, if we had a local in the capital of the country, where in addition to selling the periodical we could sell pamphlets, shirts, stickers, as we have done at times when we have received some money. We would screen some of the many movies about the struggle, host conferences, and organize debates. We would have more possibilities of weaving networks. We would show reality, the truth of the facts: That so-called “progress” and “development” are predatory to nature; they use up all the water necessary for small-scale agriculture, (which feeds people good food) and they are leading us towards the extinction of the species. Now, there is a small network of comrades at an international level which has understood this and is beginning a collaboration with “Lucha Indigena.” To communicate with them, write to the Colombian comrade Manuel Rozental, or to the Uruguayan comrade Raul Zibechi.[1] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> *QS: **You have said that you used to think the revolution would come in the distant future, but when you learned about climate change you realized that revolution will have to come within your lifetime. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoblgIAFl6g+-> The climate scientists agree, and give us a short timeline (a 2015 carbon emissions peak <http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30121-welcome-to-the-tipping-point>). Is this a pipe dream? You have said that this revolution is possible, but not certain.[2] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> How can we save the world in so short a time? How can we do it while also staying true to what the Zapatistas call “the speed of democracy”?* *HB:* Before I thought that if my generation didn’t make the revolution, then future generations would make it. What I now see is that there will not be future [image: landordeath] <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0873482662/counterpunchmaga>generations, if transnational corporations continue to govern the world. The only thing that interests them is profit, and it is with this single objective that they direct all technical and scientific advances, attacking nature more and more. If this continues, the human species may not last another 100 years. I believe that the capitalist system today, in its neoliberal stage, has entered into its final crisis, an economic, ethical and political crisis. Some call it a “crisis of civilization.” This crisis can conclude in two ways: One in which a unified humanity kicks the transnational corporations out of the governments of the world, and directs its own destiny. The other way is if humanity cannot do this, and the government of transnationals exterminates humanity, including of course all the components of the governing transnationals. This is why I said that before I fought for social equality, and now I fight for something more and more important – the survival of my species. *QS: **How can the revolutionary ideologies of the industrial working class (Marxist-Leninism, etc) work together with the revolutionary cosmovisions of indigenous peoples? One sees revolution as progress, the other as return. (Not return to the past, which as you have said is impossible, but “a return to the principles of communal society on the continent before the invasion.”[3] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…>) One seeks mastery over nature, the other seeks harmony within it. In your life you have embodied and encompassed both, so you are in a rare and unique position to answer this question. It is an ideological-spiritual question, but also a practical-strategic one — must indigenous peoples join the industrial working class in a factory system? Or must factory workers join indigenous nations in subsistence living?* *HB:* Now that we have begun to talk of Marxism, let’s talk about him. I respect Marx a great deal, he has been one of my fundamental teachers. It is he who best analyzed capital, and has taught us the method of dialectical materialism. When they asked him if he was a Marxist, he said that Marxism didn’t exist. What happened is that since we came from Christianity, we were left without a Bible, and there are those who are looking for a substitute. I admire and respect Marx and his teachings, but I don’t take his writings as a Bible. Marx was a human being, capable of being wrong, such as when he thought that since socialism would come after the development of capitalism, the revolution would be made in England or in another developed country. Fortunately Lenin was not dogmatic, and he understood that the chain could be broken in its weakest link, and was one of the drivers of the Russian revolution. Departing from this same premise, Marx said that he thought that the conquest of India by the English was positive – I am not in agreement with this. But we don’t forget that Marx talked about “primitive communism.” We also don’t forget the admiration and respect that Engels had for the primitive “gens.” José Carlos Mariategui got to know the indigenous community, but this didn’t fit the Stalinist “official line” of the “revolution in stages:” “First the democratic-bourgeois revolution against feudalism supporting the ‘progressive bourgeoisie’, and later the socialist revolution.” To this he said “the revolution in Peru will be socialist or it will not be.” We don’t forget that in his most famous work “Seven Essays,” two of them are dedicated to the indigenous, “El Problema del indio,” and “El problema de la tierra.” In terms of Lenin, he is another of my great teachers. However, I believe the necessity of a party is relative. On the point of “the dictatorship of the proletariat”, I am not for any dictatorship. We have seen in Russia how it turned into the dictatorship of a bloody bureaucracy that massacred the proletariat and buried the revolution. Marx said that it is better to see reality than to read 100 books. As I respect him, I follow his advice – and what do I see? That because of the treason of Social Democracy and Stalinism, vigorous workers’ revolutions were destroyed, as in Austria and Spain. The bourgeoisie read Marx too, and it knew that the proletariat would be its gravedigger. So it fought back with outsourcing, (so that the worker wouldn’t be able to claim an increase in wages from the factory owner, because the owner didn’t contract the worker) with the hierarchal organization that divides workers, and with automation, etc. Meanwhile, capital is ferociously attacking nature, and those who are most connected to nature are the indigenous peoples, who use their collective organization to struggle in its defense. Trotskysm? Trotsky said that Trotskyism doesn’t exist. The organization of the Fourth International sought to revindicate the revolutionary tradition against the distortions of Marxism, which the bureaucracy made for its own interests. They predicted that if the workers in the cities and the country didn’t recover power in the Soviet Union, it would fall into the hands of capitalism. Unfortunately, this happened – the principal leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union became the most important neoliberal capitalists. The objective of “Trotskyism” was to combat the soviet bureaucracy which governed the communist parties of the world. As those bureaucracies have disappeared, why be a Trotskist? I have to join with those who are fighting against the neoliberal system, fundamentally in defense of nature. Naturally everything I have learned from what is called “Trotskyism” I continue to use, such as confrontations against bureaucracies. But it would be stupid to tell the youth: “In the last century there as a debate in the Left.” I have to tell them about the attack on the environment and how to struggle in its defense. Trotskyist comrades in France and Spain have joined with non-Trotskyist revolutionaries in the same organization, which seems correct to me. *QS: **In **“Land or Death: The Peasant Struggle in Peru” <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0873482662/counterpunchmaga> you talk about your “syndicalist deviation” and failure to build the Party.[4] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> In more recent writings you express opposition to all forms of vanguardism. This is a two part question: Tell us about how your ideas about organization have changed. And what is the most appropriate form for revolutionary organization in the 21st century? You have said that “we must braid together internationally the defense of Mother Earth.”[5] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> How?* *HB:* The indigenous campesino struggle in the valleys of La Convencion and Lares was successful. Our slogan was “Land or Death!” We got the land. It was the first land reform in Peru, from 1961-1963 (the Velasco land reform was in 1971). It was the most complete. We didn’t leave a single handful of earth to the latifundistas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latifundium>, and didn’t pay them a cent. We struggled against the latifundistas, against the government, against the police and against the courts. It cost us lives and jail, but we were victorious. At that time I thought it was a deficiency to not have built the party. But I don’t think so anymore. As the Zapatistas say, everyone will see in their time and place how to do things. If we believe we should build a party, we should do it, and if we don’t think it’s convenient, we shouldn’t. But if we construct a party, it must be the base of the party which commands, not the leaders. I repeat another Zapatista concept: Command by obeying *(Mandar obedeciendo*). I believe that in Peru today a party is not necessary. In other places it could be necessary. How can we weave the defense of Mother Earth together internationally? From August 4-8th, we were occupied with this question in Cajamarca. There was an international gathering in defense of water. There were people form Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, France, Basque Country, Cataluna, and Holland. After the debates we constituted an international network, and thousands of us walked to visit the lakes (at an altitude of 4000 meters) which the Conga mining project (that has the government, parliament, courts, police and the big media as its servants) is trying to destroy. There is also another smaller and more condensed international network, with many points of view in common, which I am part of. *QS: **You have written extensively about the Zapatistas. Other former guerrilas like Raquel Guit <http://www.scribd.com/doc/217926377/Gutierrez-Aguilar-Raquel-2006-A-Desorde…>érrez Aguilar <http://www.scribd.com/doc/217926377/Gutierrez-Aguilar-Raquel-2006-A-Desorde…> have written about how the Zapatista uprising in 1994 <1994> was a personal and political turning point for them. Was it the same for you? What’s the relationship between Zapatismo and ecosocialism? Can we say that Zapatistas are ecosocialists, even if not all ecosocialists are Zapatistas?* *HB:* The Zapatistas are the best socialists I have met, with their seven principles of commanding by obeying. In the Zapatista territories, they elect not individual authorities, but groups, who are replaced after a short time. No authority at any level ever gains a cent. They are ecologists; they eat the food they grow themselves, and they don’t use agrochemicals or GMOs. They are ecosocialists even though they don’t use the term. *QS: **People all over the world see South America has a region of hope for revolutionary change. Is there promise in Venezuela’s adoption of ecosocialism as official government policy? You have written about how the indigenous peoples of South America are often fighting against ‘Socialism of the 21st century’.[6] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> But we also can’t deny that indigenous peoples have more rights and recognition under these current regimes than ever before. * *HB:* We give energetic support to the “progressive” governments of South America in their rising up against North American imperialism and against internal reaction. But we fight them when they attack indigenous peoples, when they capitulate to the transnationals, or when they attack democracy. I cite some examples of “Socialism of the 21st Century”: VENEZUELA: The indigenous Yukpa people have been trampled with the invasion of their lands by capitalist cattle ranchers. They have complained repeatedly throughout the era of Chavez, and were never given attention. An assassin hired by the ranchers killed their implacable leader Sabino Romero three days before the death of Chavez. The Bolivarian army protected the assassin’s flight. The indigenous Wayu people near the border with Colombia are also treated as hostile by the army. On paper it may call itself ecosocialist. I pay attention to what they do, not what they say. BOLIVIA: The indigenous peoples have had a long struggle against Morales, who tried to open a highway through Tipnis, trampling indigenous populations and natural reserves. The government used police aggression in repressing the protests. Other popular sectors supported their struggle, until the government had to retreat. They have put forward a mining law which favors corporations without consulting the mostly indigenous farmers. ECUADOR: . In the Ecuadorian constitution the rights of Mother Earth are considered, but in practice they promote their depredation. Correa is trying to impose mining in Cabecera de Cuenca, like the Conga project in Quimsacocha (Tres Lagunas). The indigenous people took me to the lakes, where we made offerings. Ecuador is also trying to exploit the oil in the natural reserve and indigenous territory of Yasuni, against the will of the majority of the country. Of the other countries we’ll mention only few things: BRAZIL: Even though it has a constitutional mandate, the government refuses to give titles of land possession to indigenous peoples, favoring the usurpation of their territories by agribusiness, as it destroys the Amazon rainforest. URUGUAY: Has approved a predatory mining law. ARGENTINA: Is promoting Yankee fracking against the persistent resistance of the Mapuche people. In this revolutionary intransigence of not reconciling with capitulation, and being against opportunism, one could say that I continue to be a “Marxist-Leninist-Trotskist,” even though I don’t identify myself that way anymore. *QS: **You seem to be ambivalent about the term “ecosocialism”. You have written that “in South America we cannot use the term ‘eco-socialist’,”[7] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> but also you have written many things in favor of ecosocialism. In 2009 in Belem <http://ecosocialisthorizons.com/2009/02/the-birth-of-the-ecosocialist-manif…>, you began to call yourself an ecosocialist. Tell us how you came to this, how it emerged from your earlier experience and political philosophies, and how do you see it developing locally and internationally in the century to come?* *HB:* Of course I am an ecosocialist, as are the indigenous peoples, even though they don’t use the term. I believe along with indigenous peoples that it is the collective which rules, not the individual. The indigenous peoples and I defend Mother Nature, water, and forests, so we are ecologists. What I have said is that the word “socialist” has been prostituted. By Michelle Bachelet, who used in her first government a Pinochet “anti-terrorist” law against the Mapuche people, and by the governments of so-called “21st Century Socialism” in the anti-indigenous cases mentioned above. And in the so-called “First World” the term “socialist” has been used by Tony Blair, invader of Iraq, by José Zapatero in Spain, to implant neoliberalism, and now the neoliberal government of France as well calls itself “socialist.” I don’t have any ambivalence: I consider myself an ecosocialist, and I repeat, I believe that the indigenous peoples of the world are struggling and dying for their ecosocialist conviction, even though they don’t use the term. *QS: **Ecosocialism is a relatively new revolutionary ideology and worldview, even as it draws on ancient roots. Having participated in and witnessed almost a century of the development of other revolutionary ideologies, how would you advise ecosocialists to think, work and organize themselves? What are some pitfalls to avoid, obstacles to overcome, horizons to aim for, visions to dream of?* *HB:* Earlier I indicated that I don’t believe in “the correct line.” I don’t consider myself “the vanguard”, and I don’t even believe in it. I am about 80 years old, and when I was young I enjoyed learning from the elders. Now that I am an elder I enjoy learning from the young and from children. This is not an ingenuous turn of phrase, it is the truth. We elders have a lot in our memory, and we consciously or unconsciously return to it to find solutions to current problems. The young person confronts the problems of their times spontaneously. It’s very possible that they’ll be right and I’ll be wrong. With that said, I’ll give my opinions: We are struggling against the large transnational corporations that govern the world. We know that their sacred principle, which they will sacrifice any other consideration in order to fulfill, is* “to gain more money in as little time as possible.” *They know very well that the attack against nature to gain more money will carry us to extinction, but this is much less important than the fulfillment of their sacred principle. This is the true morality of the system. Derived from this is the ultra individualism which the system teaches us, even though it doesn’t say so clearly: If you can take your brother’s inheritance, do it. The sooner your parents die, the better; you’ll get the inheritance. You should the best*, *the victor; in order to ascend you have to crush the heads of others. Bullying is the beginning of the moral apprenticeship of this system; it does not exist among indigenous peoples (and for those who are interested, look up “ Ubuntu <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28philosophy%29>” on the internet.) We know that these transnational corporations have at their service the governments of the world, the parliamentary majorities, the armies, the police, the judicial powers, the supreme courts, and the means of communication. There are governments who resist a little because of pressure from below; they make a fuss, but in the end they capitulate. It is against this that we must struggle, in defense of nature, of humanity and its survival. Our strength is that there are more of us below – if we awake and unite, the triumph will be ours. Let us join hands with those at the bottom of the whole world. We must be consistent in unmasking all the governments. Our goal is that humanity governs itself, without bosses, without leaders. Loving, respecting, and caring for our Mother Nature. Everyone loving and respecting each other. You are my other I. Everyone in their time and place will see how to struggle. There can be organizations of local resistance, parties; provincial, national and international networks. “Wanderer, there is no path – the path is made by walking.”[8] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> *Quincy Saul is the author of Truth and Dare: A Comic Book Curriculum for the End and the Beginning of the World <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570272964/counterpunchmaga>, and the co-editor of Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1604860596/counterpunchmaga>. He is a musician and a co-founder of Ecosocialist Horizons <http://www.ecosocialisthorizons.com/>*. *Hugo Blanco is leader of the Confederación Campesina del Perú <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederaci%C3%B3n_Campesina_del_Per%C3%BA> (CCP, Campesino Confederation of Peru), leader of Trotsky’s Fourth International <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International>[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Blanco#cite_note-1>[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Blanco#cite_note-2> and author of numerous books including Land or Death: The Peasant Struggle in Peru <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0873482662/counterpunchmaga>.* Notes. [1] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> raulzibechi(a)gmail.com <raulzibechi(a)gmail.com>* / *em_rozental(a)yahoo.com [2] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> “Impidamos la extincion de la especie humana” by Hugo Blanco [3] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> “12 de octubre Día de la resistencia ¡Fuera minería del Perú!” by Hugo Blanco [4] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…>* “The great deficiency in our work in La Convencion and in Cuzco was the absence of a well-organized party. Our failure to broaden the movement, the lack of a more correct view of the process, the putschist deviation of some comrades, the very poor organization of the armed struggle, were symptoms first and foremost the absence of a party, of a vanguard nucleus whose capabilities would correspond to the magnitude of the peasant movement that developed… As for the absence of the party in the countryside, it is indisputable that this was due to a serious syndicalist deviation on my part, produced not by an erroneous conception on this matter, but by other causes…”* (1972, p36) [5] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> “Hoja de vida de Hugo Blanco” by Hugo Blanco [6] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> “Let’s Save Humanity from Extinction,” by Hugo Blanco, Capitalism Nature Socialism, July 2013 [7] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> “Let’s Save Humanity from Extinction,” by Hugo Blanco, Capitalism Nature Socialism, July 2013 [8] <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/from-indigenous-struggle-to-ecosocia…> From a poem by Antonio Machado. -- To view previous posts, create a Google account with your current email and log in using gmail to access the archives. https://accounts.google.com/newaccount?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " debate-list(a)fahamu.org" group. 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Fwd: John Restakis presentation transcript
by Michel Bauwens 19 May '15

19 May '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stacco Troncoso <staccotroncoso(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:16 PM Subject: John Restakis presentation transcript To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net>, james burke < lifesized(a)gmail.com>, Kevin Flanagan <kev.flanagan(a)gmail.com> http://commonstransition.org/civil-power-and-the-partner-state/ More John links, including videos http://commonstransition.org/?s=Restakis&submit= -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Reminder NLU coop-coordination meeting to take place on 21 May 16:00 CET
by Michel Bauwens 19 May '15

19 May '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:16 PM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Reminder NLU coop-coordination meeting to take place on 21 May 16:00 CET To: "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>, squares(a)lists.takethesquare.net, 2011movements-fsm-wsf-discussion(a)lists.openfsm.net What: Networked Labour University is designed as a co-operative educational module integral to a broader network consisting of Global Networked Labour Union, Networked Labour research unit and networked labour cooperative GNLU. Tied to a greater ecology of universal, free and open access community projects like Faircoop, the Earth Cooperative, all our projects aim mutual empowerment at the bottom level to build other worlds. Anyone can join and contribute by offering and taking courses, moderating circles or skill shares, helping out with web design, platform development, promotion, or any other way! As it is decided at the opening meeting took place on May 7, we will be meeting every two weeks to coordinate the development and implementation of collectively generated cooperative ideas. Minutes of the first meeting could be seen here:http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/mod/lti/view.php?id=25 When: The date of the next coordination meeting will be held on Thursday 21 May, 16:00 CET. Where: The meetings are held on-line using free and open source software BigBlueButton that is accessed through NLU e-campus here: http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=18 In order to join the meeting you will need to register as user by clicking the above link and filling a short form: http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/login/signup.php? Anyone who likes to engage and contribute the building of NLU cooperative learning platform is more then welcome! In case you need do not hesitate to write to admin for support ( gnunion(a)networg.nl) In solidarity, Örsan _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Deep Connection
by Michel Bauwens 19 May '15

19 May '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kosmos Journal <info(a)kosmosjournal.org> Date: Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:04 PM Subject: Deep Connection To: michel <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Click here <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…> to read this newsletter on our website. [image: Kosmos Journal Newsletter] <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…> MAY 19TH, 2015 Deep Connection Dear Reader, Where are you most deeply connected – to your child, a lover, to nature, your faith? Like a tree that is only as strong as its roots, each of us relies on deep connection to nourish and make meaning of our lives. This edition of Kosmos Online explores the sense of connectedness that enlivens and empowers us. Is it the key to igniting the transformations needed in these troubling times? Kosmos Editor, Nancy Roof <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> offers a moving editorial on the *Gift of Life <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…>* from the newly-minted 2015 Spring | Summer print edition of Kosmos Journal, (if you have not become a subscriber, you can do so here <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…>). She speaks of the power of our connection to the voice within, “That soft, wise voice, which can be heard only in contemplative stillness, is somehow aligned with the life force in ineffable and beautiful ways.” Also from the current Spring | Summer print edition of Kosmos Journal, David Fideler reflects on our connection to *Nature’s Living Intelligence <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…>. *We can collaborate with the genius of nature, he says, so that nature’s intelligence can be applied to solving human problems. Our own Project Director, Dot Maver, just attended *Peacebuilding and Democracy in a Turbulent World. <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…> *If only nature’s intelligence could mitigate conflict! Transformations in consciousness begin with an individual sense of spiritual belonging, offers *Unselfish Spirit* <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…>* <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…>*author Mick Collins, yet it is through the power of human connection that we open up to our true collective potential. Kosmos Reader Will Scott agrees – we become *Fully Alive through Connection <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…>*. “Look over moments where you have felt fully alive and see if they are not also moments where you have become acutely aware of your connectedness.” We sometimes fear deep connection, the vulnerability it implies, yet opening ourselves to others can be the catalyst for a potent alchemy that helps each partner or team member discover and realize their full potential. As Vaclav Havel reflects in our concluding poem <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…> – we often take the first transformative step alone, yet it is always a step toward connection, toward Life. This echoes perfectly the theme of our current edition of Kosmos Journal – *Awakening to Life*. <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…> Peace to All, The Kosmos Team ------------------------------ <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> Subscribe to Kosmos Journal Become a subscriber to Kosmos Journal today. As a subscriber you will have access to the latest issue of Kosmos Journal. 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What comes to mind when you hear the phrase ‘Living Earth?’ How do you personally feel when you observe and honor the aliveness around you? Do you feel enveloped and enlivened by a nurturing life force that perhaps even defies words to describe it? How do you cultivate a more vibrant sense of your own inner aliveness? How is life calling you to evolve and with what degree of receptivity do you answer that call? The story arc of Kosmos Journal, for 15 years, has been the ongoing narrative of life expanding and contracting at the global level. It is the record of how we are learning to live together as a global family. READ MORE → <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> ------------------------------ <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…> Nature’s Living Intelligence <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…> Kosmos Journal Spring | Summer 2015 By David Fideler In our consumer society, we are taught to see the world as a collection of objects to be transformed, sold, used, and, ultimately, to be thrown away. Perhaps that is one reason the enduring vision of the ancient Greeks still speaks to us today, because it was based on a deeper vision of nature in which the world itself was not a collection of objects but a living expression of life, beauty, and harmony. We can see this beauty, vitality, and harmony reflected in Greek works of art, sculpture, and architecture, and also in the work of the greatest philosophers. The earliest Greek philosophers, the Presocratics, saw the world as alive and ensouled. The world and the heavens were seen as a living activity because they are in constant motion. All throughout nature we perceive the deployment of order and form in living structures, and those structures reflect strategies for problem solving. Anything that has a strategy also possesses a kind of intelligence. READ MORE → <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> ------------------------------ <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…> Peacebuilding and Democracy in a Turbulent World <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…> Kosmos Project Director, Dot Maver participated in the Alliance for Peacebuilding Conference: ‘Around the globe, the struggle between civil society voices and government repression is giving rise to violence, extremism, and toxic politics. The peacebuilding and governance/democracy communities recognize the need to work together in order to address the issues of governance, legitimacy, fragility, and disenfranchisement that underlie many violent conflicts today. The Alliance for Peacebuilding conference brings together members of the peacebuilding community with leading policymakers, members of the military, private sector professionals, and civil society representatives to build bridges in both theory and practice between these fields. From repression of civil society in Russia, to the protests over Ferguson here at home, the conference will highlight the impact of social movements on peace and democracy.’ READ MORE → <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…> ------------------------------ <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> Reader’s Essay | Fully Alive through Connection <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> By Will Scott I used to think the feeling of being fully alive only came in exceptional moments: A near-death experience, a triumphant achievement, an orgasm, a time of great loss, an instance of inexplicable synchronicity, a moment in love, being in the ‘zone’ or on the edge of some great something towards which you know you must move… Or that one time, when the thunderstorm and the sunset intermingled in the high desert air and all things became electric and inspirited and the purple-gold light seemed to emanate from within things rather than resting upon them. I chased those sorts of moments. I courted them. I even tried to corner them—navigating my life into places where I was most likely to be zapped by something that lifted me beyond the monotony of me. READ MORE → <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…> ------------------------------ <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…> Excerpt | The Unselfish Spirit <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…> by Mick Collins Our actions in the world at this time of great transformation mean that processes of co-creation are not only about what each of us does to make a difference in our own lives, but also take into account what we do together – with others – to live with a new understanding of responsibility. The idea of co-creating an improved future will require a new mind-set, where we work deeply on ourselves and also work productively together to bring about transformation. 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This email was sent to michel(a)p2pfoundation.net *why did I get this?* <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage2.com/about?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04…> unsubscribe from this list <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c14…> update subscription preferences <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/profile?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a0…> Kosmos Associates · PO Box 2102 · Lenox, MA 01240 · USA -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [tapas] Commons Transition Open Discussion Group
by Michel Bauwens 19 May '15

19 May '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stacco Troncoso <staccotroncoso(a)p2pfoundation.net> Date: Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:08 PM Subject: [tapas] Commons Transition Open Discussion Group To: tapas(a)lists.p2pfoundation.net Some on Twitter suggested we create a Loomio discussion group for Commons Transition. I think it's a great idea, as it will allow us to accept and share contributions in a more easily readable (and organizable) format than ye olde mailing list Here's the URL for the group. https://www.loomio.org/g/0j1eUbJm/commons-transition Please sign up and invite any commoners you'd like to see there! Stacco -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Monsanto’s Worst Fear May Be Coming True
by Michel Bauwens 18 May '15

18 May '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Latham <jrlatham(a)bioscienceresource.org> Date: Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:56 PM Subject: Monsanto’s Worst Fear May Be Coming True To: bsr-PROJECT-ELIST1(a)gn.apc.org Dear Friends and Colleagues Published today (Mon 18th May) by *Independent Science News* *Monsanto’s Worst Fear May Be Coming True* by Jonathan Latham http://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/monsantos-worst-fear-may-be-co… *Synopsis:* The decision of the restaurant chain Chipotle to go GMO-free is potentially a huge blow to the agbiotech industry. The decision opens up a crack in the previously solid front offered by the food industry in support of GMOs. Two factors are at work that will widen that crack: the growing unpopularity of GMOs and the pressure being felt by most sectors of the food industry to produce safer, healthier, and more sustainable products. Going GMO-free is a simple and manageable way for stores and brands to meet that demand. Consequently, a race to become GMO-free may be developing. But there is a third factor in this scenario: hazards in the GMO product pipeline. Many new GMOs are expected to be produced using a phenomenon called *RNA interference* which uses perfectly double stranded RNAs (dsRNAs). Our research shows that RNA molecules exactly like these were tried and rejected by medical researchers in the 1960s and 1970s as being too hazardous for medicine. The scientific literature evaluating the hazards of RNA molecules in crop biotechnology has so far overlooked this important historical research. As this research becomes better known, it will make defending the use of GMOs much harder. Please share this article. Apologies for cross-posting. yours sincerely Jonathan Latham, PhD Executive Director The Bioscience Resource Project Ithaca, NY 14850 USA www.independentsciencenews.org and www.bioscienceresource.org jrlatham(a)bioscienceresource.org Skype: jonathanlatham2 Tel: 1-607-319-0279 “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda _______________________________________________ BSR-project-elist1 mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/bsr-project-elist1 To unsubscribe, email bsr-project-elist1-unsubscribe(a)gn.apc.org -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: David Harvey-Andrew Kliman debate continues; MHI panels at Left Forum are May 31
by Michel Bauwens 18 May '15

18 May '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marxist-Humanist Initiative <mhi(a)marxisthumanistinitiative.org> Date: Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:56 PM Subject: David Harvey-Andrew Kliman debate continues; MHI panels at Left Forum are May 31 To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com View email in your browser <http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=3bfae7928775a996aaff05fe6&id=8de51068fc…>. <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfae792…> May 18, 2015 Hello friends, As we wrote you last month, Andrew Kliman and David Harvey have been debating in New Left Project <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfae792…> about Marx and his relevance to economic crisis and recession. Kliman’s just-published rejoinder to Harvey is re-printed on our site <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfae792…>, where you can also find earlier pieces. Those of you who are coming to NYC for Left Forum <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfae792…> May 29-31 can hear a discussion of the issues and consequences at MHI’s panel, *“Harvey vs. Marx: on capitalist crisis and ‘Marxist entertainment’”* on Sunday May 31 at 3:40 p.m. (Session 7) in Rm. 1.121. The participants will be Kliman, Brendan Cooney (Kapitalism101) and Doug Lain (Zero Books and blogs). (Harvey was invited, but responded that he will be out of town and miss Left Forum.) You are also invited to our other two panels, earlier on the same day: Sun. at 10:00 a.m. (Session 5) in Rm. 1.71: *Marx’s “Critique of the Gotha Program”: new direction for revolutionary organization*. A round-table discussion by members of a recent international class <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3bfae79…> focusing on the “Critique’s” implications for revolutionary organization, then and now. Sun. at 12:00 noon (Session 6) in Rm. 1.71: *Anti-Neoliberalism vs. Anti-Capitalism. * Much of what passes for “anti-capitalism” is frequently just “anti-neoliberalism.” A discussion of the differences between them and the dangers of conflating them, with special focus on events in Greece. Two speakers from TPTG <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3bfae79…> will appear via Skype from Greece. Speakers: Kostas Demetriou, Alex Papadopoulos, Andrew Kliman, Doug Lain, Anne Jaclard. For a fuller description of the panels, see our article here <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfae792…>. And be sure to visit us at our book table in the exhibit area (don’t confuse MHI with others). In solidarity, Anne Jaclard for MHI ________________________________________________________________________________________ <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfae792…> ________________________________________________________________________________________ <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfae792…> For a description of this pamphlet by Andrew Kliman, see* video <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfae792…>.* Available for purchase at * Bluestockings Books *or order from MHI* here <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3bfae79…>.* <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3bfae79…> Click image for trailer & information on showing this documentary film. Marxist-Humanist Initiative P.O. Box 414 Planetarium Station New York, NY 10024 email: mhi(a)marxisthumanistinitiative.org web: www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfae792…> (888) 579-2245 This email was sent to michelsub2004(a)gmail.com *why did I get this?* <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage1.com/about?u=3bfae7928775a…> unsubscribe from this list <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=3bfae792…> update subscription preferences <http://marxisthumanistinitiative.us6.list-manage.com/profile?u=3bfae7928775…> Marxist-Humanist Initiative · P.O. Box 414 · Planetarium Station · New York, NY 10024 · USA [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Nouvelle publication : "Au-delà du marché. Les nouvelles voies de la démarchandisation" par Bernard Perret.
by Michel Bauwens 18 May '15

18 May '15

dear stacco, see the title of the series, something for CT ? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Veblen Institute <contact(a)veblen-institute.org> Date: 2015-05-18 22:58 GMT+07:00 Subject: Nouvelle publication : "Au-delà du marché. Les nouvelles voies de la démarchandisation" par Bernard Perret. To: michel(a)p2pfoundation.net Si ce mail ne s'affiche pas correctement, cliquez ici <http://www.veblen-institute.org/spip.php?page=courrier_veblen&id_courrier=2…> [image: La lettre d'information de Veblen Institute] <http://www.veblen-institute.org/> <http://www.veblen-institute.org/Au-dela-du-marche-Les-nouvelles> Au-delà du marché. Les nouvelles voies de la démarchandisation. <http://www.veblen-institute.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=234> *par Bernard Perret, collection "Politiques de la transition", Institut Veblen/Les petits matins, mai 2015.* La croissance est désormais structurellement faible en Europe. Est-ce dû à des politiques économiques inadéquates ? À une panne de l'innovation ? En partie sans doute, mais cette langueur renvoie surtout à un problème plus fondamental : l'épuisement du « coeur du réacteur » de l'économie capitaliste, à savoir le mécanisme de transformation des besoins en marchandises. De nouvelles pratiques sociales émergent : troc, réparation, jardins partagés, échange de logement, crowdfunding, fab-labs, économie collaborative, qui sont autant de réponses spontanées à cette situation de blocage. Mais il y a plus : au sein même du monde productif s'affirment des logiques de coproduction, de coopération, de responsabilité écologique et de symbiose avec la société qui s'éloignent des schémas de rationalité typiques du capitalisme. Fort diverses à tous égards, ces innovations sont porteuses de valeurs démocratiques et d'une aspiration à contribuer activement au bien commun. Elles devraient être favorisées par des politiques publiques imaginatives et ambitieuses. Car, à l'heure où le pouvoir d'achat stagne et où les impératifs écologiques se font sentir, une amélioration de la qualité de vie est possible si l'on produit et consomme autrement. Veblen Institute www.veblen-institute.org 38 rue St-Sabin 75011 Paris France Tel : + 33(0)1 43 14 75 75 Fax : + 33(0)1 43 14 75 99 Veblen Institute www.veblen-institute.org 38 rue St-Sabin 75011 Paris France Tel : + 33(0)1 43 14 75 75 Fax : + 33(0)1 43 14 75 99 Cliquez ici pour modifier votre abonnement <http://www.veblen-institute.org/spip.php?page=abonnement&d=1415396669555a0c…>. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Varoufakis in EN tonight at 22:30
by Michel Bauwens 18 May '15

18 May '15

*To:* GUE-All <DL-GUE-NGL-MEP-ASS-GP(a)europarl.europa.eu> *Subject:* *Varoufakis in EN tonight at 22:30 * Dear all, following Alexis Tsipras' interview with EN interpretation a few weeks ago, the same journalist will host tonight Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. Here the info as it comes from the TV channel: "Mr. Varoufakis will answer questions from leading journalist Nikos Chatzinikolaou and an invited audience on all the critical issues facing the Greek economy and, in particular, the negotiations with its international lenders. The English-language site en.enikos.gr will transmit the interview live and provide simultaneous interpretation into English. (http://en.enikos.gr)" The previous time some iphone tablets and mobiles could not have access, hopefully this is not going to be the case this time! All my best, panayota Sent from my iPad -- Vous recevez ce message, car vous êtes abonné au groupe Google Groupes "Platforme Solidarite Grece-Belgique". Pour vous désabonner de ce groupe et ne plus recevoir d'e-mails le concernant, envoyez un e-mail à l'adresse solidaritegrece-belgium+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. Pour envoyer un message à ce groupe, envoyez un e-mail à l'adresse solidaritegrece-belgium(a)googlegroups.com. Cette discussion peut être lue sur le Web à l'adresse https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/solidaritegrece-belgium/63DE0D91-690F-4F0… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/solidaritegrece-belgium/63DE0D91-690F-4F0…> . Pour obtenir davantage d'options, consultez la page https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Oligarchies of the World Unite by Van der Pijl
by Michel Bauwens 18 May '15

18 May '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:51 AM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Oligarchies of the World Unite by Van der Pijl To: "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org > Finally finished Van der Pijl's The Discipline of Western Supremacy. Together with Molecular Red it is my nomination for all times best read. Below is the abstract of a new paper from the author, which puts un-informational dimension of global rivalries in its place. another must read: Oligarchies of the World Unite https://www.academia.edu/12423426/Oligarchies_of_the_World_Unite Kees van der Pijl Abstract The argument of this paper is that after the crisis of 2008 which has turned into an enduring stagnation amidst proliferating violence, capitalist property relations are increasingly being upheld by authoritarian means. The mode of production and social organisation, including the supremacy of the West in international affairs, has lost its self-evidence in the face of a deepening crisis of the biosphere and the effective running aground of the accumulation process on a world scale. Under these circumstances processes of class formation on both sides of the historic divide between a liberal West and a series of contender states are converging along the lines of authoritarian, oligarchic capitalism. The paper argues that corporate liberal capitalism based on class compromise in the 1980s was displaced by to neoliberalism, initially intended to restore systemic market discipline but increasingly degenerating into speculative, predatory forms undermining the forces of stability in the global political economy and fostering oligarchic enrichment. A contradiction is identified between global oligarchic convergence on the one hand and conflict at the level of political (governing and state) elites on the other, and which explains the current turbulence in the global political economy. ;;; Orsan _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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