[p2p-research] The three exodus and the transition towards the p2p society

[Michel Bauwens]

is the book available online? I'd be interested in that chapter especially,

Michel

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/27/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear friends, on may 2, I publishing the following, which I think is
> quite
> > important as a hypothesis,
>
> > Three Times  Exodus, Three Phase Transitions
>
> > The second transition: feudalism to capitalism
>
> > Something very similar starts occurring as of the 16th century. The
> feudal
> > system enters in crisis, and serfs start fleeing the countryside,
> installing
> > themselves in the cities, where they are rejected by the feudal guild
> > system, but embraced by a new type of proto-capitalist entrepreneurs. In
> > other words, a section of the feudal class (as well as some upstarts from
> > the lower classes) re-orient themselves by investing in the new mode of
> > production (and those that don’t gradually impoverish themselves), while
> > serfs become workers.
>
> I think here you may be conflating two different exoduses (exodi?).
> The free towns themselves, which marked the high point of the medieval
> system, were established largely by runaway serfs, and formed around
> the nuclei of large strategically situated villages at major
> crossroads, fords, etc.  The shift to capitalist employment, I think,
> was associated with the later alliance between absolute monarchs and
> the plutocracy, and involved the suppression of the free towns.
>
> So the founding of the original free towns and guild systems by exodus
> from the countryside, and the employment of refugees from the
> countryside in proto-capitalist shops outside the guild system, were
> two separate phases.
>
> I'm basing this largely on my memory of Kropotkin's account in The
> State and Mutual Aid.
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