I wrote this in a private email, but what do you think of this hunch:
generally speaking, the concept of non-aligned intelligentsia could
somehow apply to people like myself ... or the p2p foundation and
similar groups as a new type of platform-based 'collective
intellectuals'
people on those platforms come from different political directions,
yet somehow find a common ground in being both critical of mainstream
capitalism, but also against a too collectivist tradition as perceived
in the left ... (and yet we are not anarchist either ...)
for example, what makes me (and others) able to have a dialogue
between a postmodern anarcist, a conservative social-christian
distributist, a progressive Mormon 'Zionic' social economy advocate and
still many other tendencies ...
what makes the indignados so effective, yet at the same time
rejecting any associations with unions and labour, and what about the
pirate party and anonymous ...
food for thought, I think there is
a new kind of alignment around some kind of shared cooperative
individualism that is both distinguishable from neoliberal atomistic
individualism and state-centered collectivism ...
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