[P2P-F] From Dictatorship to Democracy

Thu Mar 17 14:03:42 CET 2011

how the info flows and coordination/mobilization can occur, is certainly a
central factor ..

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Zbigniew Lukasiak <zzbbyy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> What I like about that article is the explanatory power: why all these
> revolutions now?  because the knowledge how to do them percolated into the
> places where it was needed.  In spreading the knowledge the Internet surely
> played a role - but I can imagine this knowledge being spread by samizdat as
> well ( but probably not by hand copied manuscripts - so much for
> technological determinism).
>
> Or maybe I like it because it shows how knowledge is power, but this is
> maybe too obvious - just think about nuclear physics.
>
> Cheers,
> Zbigniew
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Zbig,
>>
>> I learned about gene sharp back in my university days (1977-81) in my
>> courses on polemology, but never studied his work in detail,
>>
>> I've read a few similar articles about this linkage,
>>
>> but it's true, no material so far in our own pages, but this is perhaps we
>> are less activist/resistance/uprising oriented and more about constructing a
>> counter-economy,
>>
>> it's the combination of both mass action and constructive alternatives and
>> policy reforms, that will ultimately win the day,
>>
>> otherwise, if they just achieve liberal plutocratic democracy, they will
>> have just achieved to be in the same mess as we are in, it beats
>> dictatorships, but doesn't solve any fundamental problem apart from that,
>>
>> Michel
>>
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>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Zbigniew Lukasiak <zzbbyy at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/02/23/f-carol-off-gene-sharp-middle-east.html
>>>
>>> I don't find anything on Gene Sharp on the p2p foundation web pages - but
>>> if what they write is true - this is a major insight into the nature of
>>> recent events.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Zbigniew
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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