On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Sam,
I'm personally not suggesting that p2p people should create a political party, BUT, I do think that we should have bridges to the institutional world, and that includes a network of sympathetic politicians,
so it's not about creating a p2p political party, but of meshworking political and non-political people around shared concerns wherever they can be active
I think what you suggest is the optimal form of political participation. The first emphasis should be on building counterinstitutions at the local level and taking advantage of the potential offered by liberatory technologies to create spaces outside of state/corporate control, as Sam writes here: Instead, I am really focused on
providing plausible alternatives to food, energy, education, technology and culture systems in our cities and communities, where people can co-govern the resources, an collaborate with others in the region who are doing the same.
To the extent that we're involved in politics, it should be by developing informal friendly ties and networking with particular individuals inside the party establishments, or by participating in ad hoc issue-oriented pressure campaigns in coalition with groups like EFF. -- Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism http://mutualist.blogspot.com The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html