On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Michel Bauwens <michel@p2pfoundation.net> wrote:

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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