[p2p-research] Is the p2p approach utopian?

[Kevin Carson]

On 5/10/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This will be published on the 17th, and calls for a 'triarchical' political
> approach to social change, aligning constructing alternatives, social
> mobilization, and commons oriented policy frameworks,






> Our approach is subjective-objective, but the last term is very important.
> Without the necessary maturation of objective modalities of production and
> human organization, a subjectivist approach based on the human will, like
> say the Negrian waiting for insurrectionist rapture, would not succeed. Open
> infrastructures need to be build, social organizational forms and
> institutions need to be built, while AT THE SAME TIME, human consciousness
> evolves and becomes politicized.

Exactly.  If you take the word "utopian" in the sense of Marx's
distinction between utopian and scientific socialism, your analysis
(in terms of failure to enclose the digital commons as a source of
rent, the three exoduses of labor, etc.) is quite scientific.  Many
other theories of the coming of a future society based around
post-scarcity are also scientific in the same sense, of having a
coherent theory of the evolution of the material basis of such a
society.

-- 
Kevin Carson
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