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

Michel Bauwens michel at p2pfoundation.net
Sat Nov 26 04:44:54 CET 2011 

hi Devin,

I personally am very thankful for progressive media like Democracy Now in
order to get at least some quality info circulated and not relying on
corporate media like Fox News

BUT, my impression on Ron Paul comes from his own videos ... some of them
are tagged under P2P-Right in my delicious and diigo tags,

for example, the one where he justifies denying blacks entry to restaurants
because they are property, advocating a total privatisation of education,
abolishing DoEd), criticising ows for having 50% profiteers, etc .. just
his own words, no need for progressive media,

in fact, I suspect his Republican contenders of circulating these videos,

Ron Paul has integrity, I think, but I find a lot of his views unpalatable;
that doesn't mean ron paul supporters cannot work with ows of course, or
that some other forms of cooperation on concrete questions are impossible

Michel

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Devin Balkind
<devin at sarapisfoundation.org>wrote:

> This is such an old paradigm conversation.
>
> First of all - yes I've seen anti-semetic signs at OWS, and next to them
> there's usually soemone with a sign that says "we don't support this
> person."
>
> Second, the fact that so many folks won't collaborate with each other
> because they have different political beliefs is why we're in this mess.
> It's old paradigm thinking and it's preventing a lot of much needed
> production from taking place.
>
> Third, the arguments that you mention against Ron Paul are straight out of
> the progressive media press releases.  Do some independent research.  Look
> into the effects of the war on drugs, US colonialism and the Federal
> Reserve and tell me that those policies aren't absolutely terrible and need
> to end.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Natalie Golovin <10natalie at cox.net>wrote:
>
>>   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 <michel at p2pfoundation.net>
>> *Sent:* Friday, November 25, 2011 7:13 AM
>> *To:* P2P Foundation mailing list <p2p-foundation at lists.ourproject.org>
>> *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 <michel at p2pfoundation.net>
>>> *Sent:* Friday, November 25, 2011 4:17 AM
>>> *To:* P2P Foundation mailing list <p2p-foundation at lists.ourproject.org>
>>> *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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>>>> live with the epidemic of Aids in Africa or the death of thousands of
>>>> children each day from curable diseases. The existence of capitalism is
>>>> conceivable only on the basis of the dulling of our feelings ... that
>>>> enables us to erect private morality into a wall to keep out the pain of
>>>> the world.... Communism is the movement of intensity against the
>>>> dulling of
>>>> feeling that makes the horrors of capitalism possible.
>>>>        -- John Holloway, Change the World Without Taking Power
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