[p2p-research] alternative economy approach

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Kevin,

I get your point about network effects, but as far as I know networks like
SEN have conferences and meetups, but no collective tools that can make that
economy an integrated reality, and this is where platforms like localmart
come in ... do you know of any other ones getting traction?

I haven't been able to find any ..

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/14/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi kevin,
> >
> > sepp will be discussing this, but I wonder if you can add an extra
> > perspective ...
> >
> > it seems to me these people are getting a number of things right, at
> least
> > based on the literature: see
> > http://www.thealternativeeconomy.org/faq.htm
>
> They do seem to be getting some things right, but the problem IMO is
> that they're reinventing the wheel.  We've got an endless supply of
> attempts at creating a single, overarching umbrella/network
> organization for the alternative economy, and it would be far better
> to pick a single one -- whatever it is -- and stick with it.   And the
> one to pick should be chosen based on network effects -- the number of
> prominent alt economy organizations affiliated with it.
>
> Global Villages and Transition Towns are two of the most promising
> organizations, and IMO the Solidarity Economy Network is the single
> most promising clearinghouse for coordinating such movements.  If you
> look for a single nucleus where the most prominent alt economy
> organizations are already affiliated, SEN is it.  It's comparable to
> the creation of the I.W.W. as an umbrella organization in 1905, with
> all the "big dawgs" in it:  Haywood from the Western Federation of
> Miners, Debs from the ARA and Socialist Party, DeLeon from the SLP,
> Mary "Mother" Jones, etc.
>
> --
> Kevin Carson
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> Organization Theory:  A Libertarian Perspective
> http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html
>



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