[P2P-F] michigan developments

Michel Bauwens michelsub2004 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 12:32:13 CEST 2011


hi Kevin,

I completely agree with your approach, which seems congruent with mine,

Michel

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear Sam,
> >
> > I'm personally not suggesting that p2p people should create a political
> > party, BUT, I do think that we should have bridges to the institutional
> > world, and that includes a network of sympathetic politicians,
>
> > so it's not about creating a p2p political party, but of meshworking
> > political and non-political people around shared concerns wherever they
> can
> > be active
>
> I think what you suggest is the optimal form of political
> participation.  The first emphasis should be on building
> counterinstitutions at the local level and taking advantage of the
> potential offered by liberatory technologies to create spaces outside
> of state/corporate control, as Sam writes here:
>
> Instead, I am really focused on
> >> providing plausible alternatives to food, energy, education,
> >> technology and culture systems in our cities and communities, where
> >> people can co-govern the resources, an collaborate with others in the
> >> region who are doing the same.
>
> To the extent that we're involved in politics, it should be by
> developing informal friendly ties and networking with particular
> individuals inside the party establishments, or by participating in ad
> hoc issue-oriented pressure campaigns in coalition with groups like
> EFF.
>
> --
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