[p2p-research] Is peer production a real mode of production?

[Kevin Carson]

On 8/3/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi kevin,
>
> with half-wave I mean the following
>
> a kondratieff wave has a upswing wave of 25-30 years marked by high growth
> and productive investement
>
> half-way there is a crisis in the dominant country (73 oil crisis)
>
> set's off the second half-wave of low growth and speculative investment and
> financialization

Thanks for clarifying.

> it's an open question, but I think there is room for a wave of investment
> around green etc ...

Possibly.  I just don't think it can absorb anywhere near the levels
of investment capital required to overcome monopoly capital's tendency
toward overaccumulation and excess surplus creation.

> but it is conditioned on the financial deleveraging and structural reform of
> the previous wave, and that is NOT happening (I've heard it is similar not
> to 1929, but to 1873, as a scenario)

The whole setup seems designed as an uber-Hamiltonian project to
prevent deleveraging and keep asset prices inflated at taxpayer
expense.

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