[P2P-F] [Networkedlabour] Transnational and P2P Commons Transitions

Sun Jul 27 13:03:40 CEST 2014

> < 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 ?