[P2P-F] P2P-Foundation Digest, Vol 10, Issue 38

[Nicholas Roberts]

hi michel

this is my commentary below, and I've done a little collation
http://permaculture.tv/u-s-occupy-movement-grows-as-protests-reported-in-847-cities/

there is a place for spontaneous, self-organizing, bottom-up organizing, and
these occupations are a space for democracy, something that most people
really never experience (voting is very different to consensus or
participation-based democracy)

the Adam Curtis documentaries, and much of the critique here in the US, has
been of the "what is the single demand", or "they are so disorganized" which
is confusing the public relations media campaign with the democratic
assembly.. actually, my own experience of these types of events has its been
extremely efficient, far more efficient than government or large corporate
technocracies ... however, I do agree with Curtis, after the mobilization,
the assembly, there needs to be a kind of organization that sustains and
continues once the passions have dissipated and its back to the hard slog of
routine day-to-day work, activism etc

as to the self-sustaining peer-to-peer production, I agree with Michel, its
nearly always being subsidized by state-capitalism, and is almost never
internally self-supporting. There is a proposal in the Drupal community for
a Drupal worker cooperative, also we discussed it really briefly with Prof
Fred Freundlich at Mondragon University, i.e. New Economy worker coops, i.e.
why are open source projects only ever corporation sponsored communities ?

-- 
Nicholas Roberts
US 510-684-8264
http://Permaculture.TV
http://permaculture.coop



* <in fact all peer production projects *are* self-sustaining. That
> is part of their positive feedback cycle. Probably you are talking of
> something else.>
>
> Peer production projects can be collectively sustainable by relying on a
> continuous stream on voluntary contributions, but they do presently not
> sustain their members, who are usually paid by for-profit companies or as
> freelancers on a marketplace ... i.e. the commons is not independently
> sustainable for its members; this is why I propose that commoners/peer
> producers create their own structures for a more autonomous cycle of
> reproduction.
>
>
> hi nicolas, perhaps you could embed this with some commentary of yours?
>
> you will like it: http://www.vimeo.com/30078496
>
> From: Nicholas Roberts <nicholas at themediasociety.org>
>
> there is plenty of nihilist Leftist critique out there also
>
> especially from the dinosaur vertical Marxists who have a big problem with
> the anarchic inspired bottom up processes common to these
> anti-capialist/alter-globalization movements
>
> in Europe there is a lot more big tent solidarity then on display in the
> US...
>
> too many old Marxists, who should just shut up and send food parcels,
> instead whinge about discipline and have created a mini industry critiquing
> the publications of the movements
>
> the old, crusty, seedy Marxists, always say, "There is No Left in the USA".
> Now its obviously not true, they say "There is no Real, Rigorous,
> Dialectically Sophisticated, Disciplined Left in the USA"
>
> Occupying Occupy Together
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> show details 12:29 PM (25 minutes ago)
> can I just make a general swing at the keyboard intellectuals.
>
> get of your arses and get down the places where people are gathering and
> get
> involved in the process
>
> its real easy to sit at home and read the amatuer, naive, often foolish
> media that comes out of these media events and spectacles
>
> even easier to type-up scathing nihilist critiques about the failure of the
> Left, the faults of the young, the weakness of the institutions etc etc etc
> etc etc
>
> there is plenty of material, and its been done, too much
>
> now is a time, to actually do something, and its time to be an organic
> intellectual and participate in the messy, smelly,
> noisy, uncomfortable realities of these kinds of democratic actions
>
> soon enough it will dissipate, and you can go back to eating the shit
> sandwhich of Amercian life
>
> but today, and for the next few days, there is something happening worth
> participating in
>
> take your intellect, your knowledge, your experience and GO HELP
>
>
> >
> > Today's Topics:
> >
> >   1. Re: Fw: Cheap "Jibe" at Protestors.... (robert searle)
>
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