[P2P-F] is p2p akin to anarchism

[Michel Bauwens]

views very welcome,

Michel

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Hi Michel,
Henry Edward Hardy commented on your link.
Henry wrote: "The article, "The Political Economy of Peer Production," by
Michael Bauwens, advocates a supposedly new form of economic organization
based on peer-to-peer networking. This social-network, flat,
non-hierarchical system of production is anticipated in the political and
economic philosophy of syndicalism, dating pack to 1895. Syndicalism is a
system of organization of the means of production which seeks to replace
free enterprise capitalism (US) and state capitalism (China) with
co-operative, voluntary federations of democratically-organized and
administered trade unions. Mutual aid, self-organization, and
self-administration are among the means and goals of syndicalism. In other
words, the first three "requirements"in this article, technological
infrastructure that operates on peer-to-peer processes, alternative
information and communication systems, software infrastructure, to the
degree that they are requirements at all, in no way require computers or
computer networks! The article attempts to graft the author's (perhaps
un-self-aware) syndicalist political views onto the development process of
the Internet and Free Software projects. In fact, the most successful of
these, such as the Internet under Jon Postel, the Free Software Foundation
under Richard Stallman, One Laptop per Child under Nicholas Negroponte, and
Linux kernel maintenance under Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton, have been
what might more accurately described as "benign dictatorships" than
syndicalist or peer-to-peer in nature. "An injury to one is an injury to
all." http://www.facebook.com/l/32423/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicalism
http://www.facebook.com/l/32423/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel
http://www.facebook.com/l/32423/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
http://www.facebook.com/l/32423/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte
http://www.facebook.com/l/32423/www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/linus.html"


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