I wrote this in a private email, but what do you think of this hunch:<br><br>generally speaking, the concept of non-aligned intelligentsia could
somehow apply to people like myself ... or the p2p foundation and
similar groups as a new type of platform-based 'collective
intellectuals'<br>
<br>people on those platforms come from different political directions,
yet somehow find a common ground in being both critical of mainstream
capitalism, but also against a too collectivist tradition as perceived
in the left ... (and yet we are not anarchist either ...)<br>
<br>for example, what makes me (and others) able to have a dialogue
between a postmodern anarcist, a conservative social-christian
distributist, a progressive Mormon 'Zionic' social economy advocate and
still many other tendencies ...<br>
<br>what makes the indignados so effective, yet at the same time
rejecting any associations with unions and labour, and what about the
pirate party and anonymous ...<br><br>food for thought, I think there is
a new kind of alignment around some kind of shared cooperative
individualism that is both distinguishable from neoliberal atomistic
individualism and state-centered collectivism ...<br><font color="#888888">
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