[P2P-F] Political Commons

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear Leif,

I hope you don't mind I'm sharing this with our list,

this may not be an area I have thought true sufficiently,

very generally, I've always thought that we should make sure we have
pluralistic
forms of democracy, and not just one forum,

for example, now, our representative mechanisms have been hijacked, while
in russia, it was the councils ..  so the political commons itself could not
be just one institution, but a plurality, keeping each other in balance and
making power accumulations more difficult

we also have different domains, the territorial, the places where we work
and study, and our cultural institutions (which may be a-territorial), and
may require their own institutions ..

I was intending to spend 3 years, as of January 2012, to study democratic
forms

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Leif Olsen <leif_thomas_olsen at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear Michel,
>
> Coming back to our exchange a while ago, I wonder if you can give me some
> links to where you elaborate on 'political commons' - as compared to
> 'commons' from an ownership point of view. By this I mean 'how' this third
> force (i.e. non-private / non-state) shall engage in the political
> arena. Since politics is an area of debate and decisionmaking that affects
> *all* other aspects of society too, I see a need to establish a forum - a
>  'politcal commons' if you so wish - where such (i.e. non-private /
> non-state) interests can be represented. I call this 'Reference
> Parliaments', in which I see a significant philosophical overlap with the
> ideas you promote.
>
> Nevertheless, I cannot really see from your writing 'how' you expect this
> third force to be politically represented. Can you elaborate on this?
>
> Cheers
> /Thomas
>
>
>
>



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