[P2P-F] is p2p akin to anarchism

Mark Janssen dreamingforward at gmail.com
Sat Apr 23 22:13:39 CEST 2011


On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Michael,
>
> is there any literature or ideas of how the basic income is necessarily, or
> not, related to centralized systems for its organisation and disbursement?

Centralized systems are necessary when property law trumps human need.
 When "right to property" is made greater than "right to sleep", then
income is necessary, because in order to sleep you have to "pay the
man" somewhere.

Basically a networked p2p system allows something greater than anarchy
because it provides a catalyst to unite two always-appearing axiis:
capitalism and communism.  (there's an article at pangaia.sf.net
called "capitalism vs. communism" that explores this.)  In this way
property law morphs into property stewardship.

Hope that helps....

Mark




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