<div dir="ltr">very useful, thanks a lot<div><br></div><div>Michel</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 7:05 AM, Frederic Janssens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fjanss@gmail.com" target="_blank">fjanss@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>For the general question of the 250 year old battle between revoluton and reformism, and possiblity or not to escape this dualist perspective; I have discovered and am now reading Dave Elder-Vass.<br><br><a href="http://www.eldervass.com/publications.htm" target="_blank">http://www.eldervass.com/<wbr>publications.htm</a><br><br></div>I have not not read enough to know if I agree with everything, but he seems to have a philosophically/sociologically argued set of concepts that enable to escape dualism in reasonning about those matters.<br></div><div>Quite compatible with what Michel and Pat try to do.<br></div><div><br></div>I am now reading his last book :<br><div><div><br>Elder-Vass, D. (2016). <i>Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy</i>, Cambridge: <a href="http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/sociology/social-theory/profit-and-gift-digital-economy?format=PB&isbn=9781316509388" target="_blank">Cambridge University Press</a>.<br><div><br><br><big><big>
Dave Elder-Vass's The Causal Power of Social Structures (2010)<br><br>is available online :<br>
<a href="http://profs.basu.ac.ir/spakseresht/free_space/the%20causal%20power%20of%20social%20structure.pdf" target="_blank">http://profs.basu.ac.ir/<wbr>spakseresht/free_space/the%<wbr>20causal%20power%20of%<wbr>20social%20structure.pdf</a></big></big><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 August 2016 at 22:49, Bob Haugen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.haugen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.haugen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yup.<br>
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On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Anna Harris <<a href="mailto:anna@shsh.co.uk" target="_blank">anna@shsh.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> It often seems to me that the need to justify ones own position as opposed<br>
> to, rather than in addition to, or including others, comes from the<br>
> structural imperative to earn a living, which necessitates offering<br>
> something different and therefore of value in<br>
><br>
> the market place. This is the inevitable concomitant of a capitalist economy<br>
> which requires people to have something of value which they can sell to earn<br>
> a living - labour, intellect, care, etc.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Anna<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 3 Aug 2016, at 21:31, Bob Haugen <<a href="mailto:bob.haugen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.haugen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> One of your comments resonated with me. We have pretty much abandoned<br>
> seeking funding and have also stopped responding to request from other<br>
> people to help them with funding. That leaves holes. But I think we<br>
> gotta figure out how to support our own activities as much as<br>
> possible. I know, not always possible.<br>
><br>
> We could try dues...that's what the old Nonpartisan League did and<br>
> they took over North Dakota and created the state bank, among other<br>
> things.<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Orsan <<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com" target="_blank">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
><br>
> Well I was expecting you and Peter would make this warning. And this<br>
> argument is about the methodology of analysis, or as Madron put it, and<br>
> Fabians would totally agree 'operational complexity management'. I think at<br>
> the current point of time complexity managers has more advanced tools and<br>
> infrastructures to manage the complexity that opposition forces added on<br>
> the complexity created by the intra-elite struggle. On the one hand there<br>
> emerges an alliance of 'delayists' (around next system project, new economy<br>
> alliance, de-growth so on) and on the radical left 'acclerationists' are<br>
> forming a constellation (around Negri and so on). Some from left like<br>
> Michael Aalbert, and parecon, David Harvey and rabel cities, negrists or<br>
> cognitive captalists 'platform cooperatvism', Eric Olin Wright and real<br>
> Utopias.. are counted in the next system alliance. On the driving seat, as<br>
> John Restakis prompted sometimes ago, there are networks which are funded by<br>
> OAK foundation of UK Royal-state, Rockefe<br>
><br>
> llar, Ford, Soros foundation so on. These formed a founder alliance called<br>
> Edge Funders, whom Michel thinks are radicals. They fund all sort of spaces,<br>
> from WSF, to Left Forum, from the events Michel and Pat mentioned, to Ripess<br>
> -Synergia people (social solidarity economy discourse), from TNI to all sort<br>
> of movement building hubs. Yes There are contradictions every where, there<br>
> is a chaos too, but also there are some orders and regularities that are<br>
> telling us something, and most worrisome is no one is talking about with the<br>
> fear of not getting any funding and suffer economically. That state of<br>
> 'being determines the consciousness'. The more no one is willing to talk<br>
> about these openly the more things go worse. That is all I wanted to say..<br>
><br>
><br>
> Orsan<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 3 aug. 2016, at 22:03, Bob Haugen <<a href="mailto:bob.haugen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.haugen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
><br>
> I snipped the previous contents, they were overloading my email<br>
><br>
> viewer. And deleted the WSF from the distro list so they stop<br>
><br>
> complaining at me.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Dear Orsan, I agree that alliances with aspects of the powers-that-be<br>
><br>
> pose dangers. And co-optation happens. Fortunately, they don't want to<br>
><br>
> ally with me anyway, otherwise I would need to thread some of those<br>
><br>
> needles.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I would, however, repost what I understood from Peter's message. If we<br>
><br>
> are dialectical materialists, we gotta do a dialectical analysis of<br>
><br>
> all these forces and their contradictions and also and maybe<br>
><br>
> especially their internal contradictions.<br>
><br>
><br>
> And even after the revolution or transformation or whatever, there<br>
><br>
> will still be contradictions. That's life.<br>
><br>
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