<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">hi Michel,</span><div><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Huge thank you for the clear and a concise articulation of what I've been thinking in the last few weeks!</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">> The p2p/commons approach has a crucial role to play in making the Sanders coalition more realistic, by offering new strategies for re-industrialization which are not based on going back to the old models, but on going forward towards a cosmo-local model of production, which offers solutions not just for the US workers, but for the populations of the world, and through its stress on mutualization and the commons, has solutions for the ecological and climate crisis.</span><br><div><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">The question I hold is, how can we most effectively play that role?</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Isn't it by opening dialogues, both at the thought leadership and the grassroots levels?</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><i><font color="#ff0000">solidarity!</font></i></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">george</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="1" face="garamond, serif">George Pór<br></font></div><div><font size="1" face="garamond, serif">Fellow, Future Considerations</font></div><div><font size="1" face="garamond, serif">Founder, CommunityIntelligence Ltd<br></font></div><div><font size="1" face="garamond, serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="1" face="garamond, serif">researcher in collective intelligence and wisdom<br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:20px"><font size="1" face="garamond, serif"><a href="http://www.community-intelligence.com/?q=integral-mindfulness" target="_blank">integral mindfulness</a> mentor and learning partner to leaders </font></span></div><div><font size="1" face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:20px">and changemakers in business, government and civil society</span><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:20px"><font size="1" face="garamond, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font size="1" face="garamond, serif"><img src="https://evbdn.eventbrite.com/s3-s3/eventlogos/13147219/communityintelligencelogo.jpg" width="200" height="43"><br></font></div><div><font size="1" face="garamond, serif">Email: <a href="mailto:george@community-intelligence.com" target="_blank">george@community-intelligence.com</a><br></font></div><div><font size="1" face="garamond, serif">Mobile: +44 7780 181 865<br></font></div><div><font size="1" face="garamond, serif">Skype: georgepor<br>LinkedIn: <a href="http://uk.linkedin.com/in/georgepor" target="_blank">uk.linkedin.com/in/georgepor</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:x-small">Facebook: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/george.por" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:x-small" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/george.por</a><br></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><font size="1">Twitter: @Technoshaman<br>Web: </font><font color="#0000ee" size="1"><u><a href="http://www.community-intelligence.com/?q=george-por" target="_blank">http://www.community-intelligence.com/?q=george-por</a></u></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="1" face="garamond, serif">Blog: <a href="http://blogofcollectiveintelligence.com" target="_blank">http://blogofcollectiveintelligence.com</a></font></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">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"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">personal reflections on the meaning of Trump, in the form of axioms. Bear in mind this is a very quick first write-up which needs to be improved.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Updates eventually via <a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Theses_on_Trump" target="_blank">https://wiki.<wbr>p2pfoundation.net/Theses_on_<wbr>Trump</a></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></p><h1 style="color:black;background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-weight:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-size:1.8em;font-family:"linux libertine",georgia,times,serif;line-height:1.3"><span class="m_3373747810978461080gmail-mw-headline" id="m_3373747810978461080gmail-Theses">Theses</span><span class="m_3373747810978461080gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="m_3373747810978461080gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Theses_on_Trump&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: Theses" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial" target="_blank">edit</a><span class="m_3373747810978461080gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h1><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">1. The victory and support for Trump reflects the crisis of neoliberal globalization and the underlying dynamics of capitalism, i.e. both the environmental externalities such as peak resources (not contrary to current oil glut, but a paradoxical part of it, see <a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Bio-Physical_Triggers_of_Political_Violence" title="Bio-Physical Triggers of Political Violence" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial" target="_blank">Bio-Physical Triggers of Political Violence</a>), and climate change; and the social externalities, essentially the impoverishment of the western working and middle classes.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">2. Hence a struggle between the pro-neoliberal forces who want to maintain the benefits of Empire at the cost of both the internal population and the nationally bound industries, and those of the forces that backed Trump, and accept that they can no longer dominate Empire . Hence the support for Trump from the more nationally oriented business leaders, the sectors that fear climate change costs and regulations (the energy sector). Hence the retreat from imperial policing and responsibilities. The idea is to retreat back to the nation-state, only accept trade which does not endanger national capital, and to repatriate the trillions that are stashed abroad through the 'imperial' multinationals. This explains the opposition to Trump from the neoliberal elite.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">3. The class compromise of neoliberalism, to accept the cultural aspects of the 1968 uprising, and thus the acceptance of cultural and gender rights with the postmodern, post-labor left that supported it, is no longer workable. Hence the Trump forces promise an alignment with the white working class (but also others who share certain laborist or productivist values), at the cost of Otherization. It is important to understand that just as the labor left institutions got coopted in the New Deal / Welfare state model, so did also the pro-rights left represented by identity politics, or at least large parts of it (see Boltanski book). Hence the alignment between pro-neoliberal politics and the cultural left, represented by the Clinton-Obama coalitions.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">4. Since the cultural left is focused on cultural rights, they are understandably opposed to the Otherization and overt racism/genderism of the Trump coalition, and feel largely obliged to support to some degree the neoliberal regime which granted the cultural rights and reforms, but given the undermining of the neoliberal compromise, this seems like a mistake.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">5. More realistically, the Sanders forces represent those sectors of the left focused on recreating a synergy between progressive labor and the cultural left, intent on creating a new coalition. Hence the moderate language used by Sanders so as to maintain the links with the parts of labor who voted Trump. However, this also means maintaining a broad orientation towards restoring the New Deal principles , support for Keynesian politics, but also crucially, the same orientation towards re-industrialization and the restoration of the nation-state.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">6. Both coalitions therefore have their contradictions. For example, Trump needs the support of both labor and their unions, but also of the no-tax Republicans, meaning he has to cut the budget at the same time as he needs trillions for infrastructural investment. He needs to retreat from Empire, but needs to pacify the defense establishment. He needs Big Oil, but at the cost of environmental disruption.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">7. The Obama and Sanders coalitions have their own contradictions, being wedded to a dismantling globalization and a impossible to really restore nation-state reality.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br>8. The p2p/commons approach has a crucial role to play in rending the Sanders coalition more realistic, by offering new strategies for re-industrialization which are not based on going back to the old models, but on going forward towards a cosmo-local model of production, which offers solutions not just for the US workers, but for the populations of the world, and through its stress on mutualization and the commons, has solutions for the ecological and climate crisis. This requires that commoners make their own turn towards focusing not on knowledge workers only, but to all workers and the rest of the population, by offering perspectives for sustainable livelihoods. While at the same time, construction trans-national institutions.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">9. However, the big issue for the commons movenent and emergence is the immaturity of a lot of these potential solutions. Thus, the commons needs as much to align with the progressive nation-state restorers, as the other way around, as such huge transitions are impossible to carry out in good conditions without the support of state institutions (what we call the Partner State approach). Hence, one of the strategic priorities is a dialogue between the labor left (a la Sanders and Corbyn), the cultural rights movements, and the emerging commons movement.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_3373747810978461080gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: <a href="http://commonstransition.org" target="_blank">http://commonstransition.org</a> </div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/<wbr>mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-<wbr>complete-list/</a> <br></div></div></div></div>
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