Dear Brian, you recently wrote: http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1356 "We need a people-state, operating at different scales -- global, continental, national, territorial -- and allowing community self-organization for survival and cultural flowering." I already recommended your analysis of the current conjuncture in Empire to our list. However, I am very interested in your elaboration of the state. With George P. here in cc, I'm starting a collective rereading of Nikos Poulantzas, and want to update my own understanding of the concept of the Partner State, If you had any material to enlighten our debates, it would be much appreciated, Michel -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote:
"We need a people-state, operating at different scales -- global, continental, national, territorial -- and allowing community self-organization for survival and cultural flowering." However, I am very interested in your elaboration of the state.
If I may suggest. That the idea of the nation-state is now already an anachronism, an archaic left-over of the Old Economy which is fading. A time when expansion and control of resources was key. But in the global, inter-connected age, it doesn't make any sense and its presence is like a thorn waiting to be dislodged -- blocking more efficient flows of goods, services, and information. Even the currency model need re-evaluated. Imagine this: gold coins of standardized weights issued from every country depicting their cultural contribution to humanity, freely circulating across the globe. Wouldn't that be a world changer? P2P currency, but at the level of countries. marcos
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