[p2p-research] 21st Century Socialism: Eleven Talking Points

[Michel Bauwens]

A text such as Herve's makes me wish we could revive our French blog.

If anyone knows any potential volunteers, please do let me know,

Michel

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Hervé Le Crosnier <herve at info.unicaen.fr>wrote:

>
>
> Michel Bauwens a écrit :
> > Hi Sam,
> >
> > I face similar difficulties,
> >
> > socialism can mean many many different things, but it is essentially a
> > 19 cy social ideology that has been deeply discredited by 20th century
> > failings ...
> >
> > this is one of the reasons that I use the peer to peer narrative and
> > steer away from any language in that tradition
> >
> > however, we have to realize that great numbers of people still are
> > influenced by these or similar ideologies, including many sincere people
> > striving earnestly for a just and more equal world,
> >
>
>         Hello,
>
>        I agree with Michel, we have to connect two traditions
>        of fighting for freedom : one coming fromthe industrial
>        age, as a fight for propertyand control over means of
>        production and one emerging from the information age,
>        refusing new enclosures over interllectual property
>        and establishing new commons.
>
>        I wrote an article on this subject, explaining to
>        ones issued from the first model (the altermondialist
>        association ATTAC) the new opportunities opened by
>        the free software movement.
>
>        I'm sorry, it's in french, so few people can read this.
>        But if it's of interest for some of you...
>
>        Yours,
>
> Hervé Le Crosnier
>
>


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