Blast from the past...<br><br>I think your hunch is correct and that a solidarity among p2p/free/libre/open advocates is extremely important and needed right now. There's certainly a set of policies and approaches we can all agree on, even if the local manifestations of our politics differ. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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"><font color="#888888">
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