[P2P-F] Transnational and P2P Commons Transitions

[Michel Bauwens]

< Today, you can in real time
collaborate with agency that would in the past seemed opponent to you
politically; like Phorudon and Marx (anarchism vs communism), Lasal
and Spartakists as well as Lenin and Kautsky (Socialism vs. Social
Democracy), as well as all the following generations of left and
progressive fracitonalism. This made possible for capitalism to assert
itself as an irreversible and immortal historical structure.>

Dear Orsan,

I'm not sure how to understand that argument. I would say yes, networks
function by affinity and seek commonality for joint action, and much of the
earlier antagonisms seem antiquated. I think it is also a epistemological
and multi-perspectival or trans-paradigmic issue: do we have to agree with
marx 100% and reject Proudhon or rather can we expect that there is truth
in various positions ? Are all the debates and antagonisms of the 19th and
20th cy fully operational today ? But I'm not sure how this is related to
'made it possible for capitalism to assert itself" How is the fact that say
anarchists and communists can now talk to each other and transcend former
antagonisms, related to capital's self-assertion ?

I fully agree with your last paragraph:

<" as long as we are doing trans-level and
multi-dimentional practice of community/network building and
interlinking work (allowing empowerment of ourselves and all the nodes
simultaneously), it does not matter that much what we have as personal
visions, preferences, expectations, predictions, so on.. about the
future and nature of transition. The previous organisational forms,
like part, platform, block, front, did not allow such collaborative
and egaliterian ethical alliances. Now it is more possible then
before, not perfectly smooth of course. With the 'quantum-logic' I was
reffering this new possibility. This is an outcome of the
technological-communicational paradigm shift, and at the moment it
works for the advantage of the ruled, yet it might not last long.">

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