[p2p-research] P2P + The System = Change

[marc fawzi]

I subscribe to that.

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Marc,
>
> I'm for a very pragmatic approach in this,
>
> for 200 years, people have fought and vituperated against capitalism, it
> still stands,
>
> I say, we use 'it', just as it uses 'us', we do what we have to do to
> advance our goals and values,with whatever is available to us, in the
> smartest possible way, and with the most allies that we can muster ...
>
> but we advance on all fronts at the same time,
>
> Michel
>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:40 AM, marc fawzi <marc.fawzi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Given my/our _adversarial_ relationship with the existing system I have
>> concluded that either I/we start take advantage of the system or the system
>> will continue to take advantage of me/us.
>>
>> In contributing to the emergence of the kind of society<http://evolvingtrends.wordpress.com/about/>I/we
>> <http://evolvingtrends.wordpress.com/about/>want, I/we need to take
>> advantage of the system, not ignore it or worse circumvent it but take full
>> advantage of it.
>>
>> This is in follow up to the dialog between Ryan and Michel on idealism
>> (for its 'perceived' moral and social value) vs pragmatism (for the sake of
>> enabling change)
>>
>> My 44 cents.
>>
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