[p2p-research] towards post-industrial ? some books and references - "informal economy"

[Kevin Carson]

On 2/3/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

> your article on abundance in the blog was really fantastic, thanks a lot for
> this important contribution,

Thanks!

> Kevin, do you have any considered opinion on distributism? John Medaille has
> promised some contributions for the future, I would be interested in your
> take on that movement and its proposals, in light of your own mutualism,

I read Belloc's The Servile State and can't recommend it highly
enough, although I object to a lot of his conclusions about practical
politics.  He argues as though the choices were between state
intervention to thwart the natural tendency toward concentration of
wealth, and rule by a plutocracy.  And so the final part of his book
is pretty pessimistic about the prospects for redistributing wealth,
or for a new set of rules to counteract the market's natural tendency
toward concentration.  As you know, I take pretty much the opposite
view.

I'm friendly toward distributism as a member of a larger class of what
Marx called "petty bourgeois socialism":  distributism, agrarianism,
Georgism, social credit, etc.

John M.  is an excellent thinker and writer, and will be a benefit to
the blog IMO.

-- 
Kevin Carson
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Organization Theory:  A Libertarian Perspective
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