[P2P-F] If the ?Tea Party Join Together, We Can End the Malignant Partnership Between Big Government | ZeroHedge

Fri Nov 25 18:33:36 CET 2011

Regret using the term “lot’s of”-that IS something I’ve picked up on the net. But I personally have seen 3 on TV newscasts. The point is I fear where you’re going with this. It resembles political control in line with Southern segregation- at best encouraging people to disguise their preferences (promoting a surreptitious social atmosphere) and at worst, an Orwellian nightmare. Tyranny of the mob like Govt tyranny is still tyranny-and all in the name of a better society.

From: Michel Bauwens 
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 7:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [P2P-F] If the ?Tea Party Join Together, We Can End the Malignant Partnership Between Big Government | ZeroHedge

hi natalie,

I know this is a popular meme with the right, and you even say, 'lots of', but, can you show me one picture with antisemitic slogans, I have seen hundreds of pictures, been to zuccoti, and not seen a single one ..

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Natalie Golovin <10natalie at cox.net> wrote:

  Unless someone breaks the law, or encourages, provokes, assists illegal acts, how can you justify not cooperating with them? First, in many cases-you may never know what’s “ in their hearts.’” In a Democratic-General Assembly kind of system-how can you exclude people because they don’t share your value system? You draw the line with personal relationships and voluntary acts like not working for a polluter, or voting for an anti-gay politician. There have been many Anti-Semitic signs at OWS protests. Do you not go because they are there? Kick them out? Less than full inclusion turns freedom of speech, or any other freedom into a mockery-just another kind of segregation.

  From: Michel Bauwens 
  Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 4:17 AM
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  Subject: Re: [P2P-F] If the ?Tea Party Join Together, We Can End the Malignant Partnership Between Big Government | ZeroHedge

  On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Christian Siefkes <christian at siefkes.net> wrote:

    Michel Bauwens wrote:
    > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Christian Siefkes <christian at siefkes.net>wrote:

    >> > Would you work with the Ku Klux Klan if it could help foster your goals?
    >> > Where do you draw the line?
    >
    > good question, I would draw the line with explicitely 'anti-p2p' forces
    > such as racism, genderism, etc ..

    Yes, that sounds reasonable. Peer production requires treating others as
    your peers, as equals, and anybody with racist, homophobic, sexist,
    anti-semitic views won't be able to do that, hence their participation is
    likely do to more bad than good.

    Anti-abortion is about denying women's right over their own bodies (while,
    of course, men's rights over their bodies are never put in doubt), hence it
    is equally 'anti-p2p'.

  well, the last thing is a bit more problematic for me, I see this as an ethical opinion; for example, I have worked and communicated with catholic distributists, who are very egalitarian (support distributing proprety, catholic worker movement, live in collectives without property etc ..) but find abortion objectionable because of their egalitarianism .. of course, I disagree with this,  but I find it has little practical importance in the cooperation

    > a question for you: if you are working on a piece of free software, and you
    > discover your co-developer is KKK, would you stop working with her?
    >
    > these are by no means easy questions, FLOSS is full of libertarians, whose
    > values I object to ...

    I know. Eric Raymond's pro-gun standpoint and some of his possible
    more-or-less racists sayings haven't stopped me from quoting his insights
    about free software. 

  they are also majorly wrong in the bazaar/cathedral metaphor <g>; the cathedrals were very participatory and distributed efforts involving the whole population ..

    Some time ago I discovered that the author of a little
    piece of free software I'm using has shockingly right-wing views:
    http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/enemies/ . That didn't stop me from using
    his software, nor from contributing a little patch back to him, of course.

    So I don't think people having personal views contrary to my own is a
    problem as long as it doesn't hinder cooperation in a project. But on the
    other hand I would think it very wrong to invite people with such
    standpoints precisely *because of* their standpoints -- which is what
    anybody who talks about "building an alliance with the Tea Party" is
    proposing to do.

  I agree, I would oppose any formal cooperation with tea party organisations, they are a very dangerous, fascism-inducing political force; but a few people call themselves that way and are pro-open source libertarians; they should disown the label instead of claiming that they are the true TP'ers and all the others are fake.

    And, of course, if (say) an openly racist person's participation in a
    project would cause black people to leave to product, or discourage them
    from joining it, since they could feel no longer welcome, then it would be
    the racist who would have to leave so as to correct the situation. I hope we
    agree on that?

  yes

    > what do you think of nader's alliance with ron paul, around the 3
    > priorities of ending the war, ending the war on drugs and 3 ??

    "and 3"? Ending wars, and ending the war on drugs are fine goals, and it
    seems to me that Ron Paul is by far not the worst of the Tea Party--near
    candidates currently running. Nevertheless I suppose that such alliances
    will ultimately do more bad than good, since they will increase acceptance
    for causes that are anti-emancipatory and 'anti-p2p'.

  ron paul also has quite terrible positions on civil rights and the like; I'm not sure if nader is correct is doing such an alliance, though I respect Nader a lot; I think ows has a better position, by eschewing formal political alliances altogether, and seeking broad commonality on a few key goals 

  at least for the time being ... if time, circumstances and maturation require much more radical steps, even such commonality may become strained

  Michel

    Best regards
           Christian

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