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

Michel Bauwens michelsub2004 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 16:58:47 CET 2010


John published a book in romanian, with one of my p2p essays translated,

Michel

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org
> Mutualist Blog:  Free Market Anti-Capitalism
> http://mutualist.blogspot.com
> Studies in Mutualist Political Economy
> http://www.mutualist.org/id47.html
> Organization Theory:  A Libertarian Perspective
> http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html
>
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