[p2p-research] Is the p2p approach utopian?

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear Magius,

I'm copying Marco Fioretti, who just wrote an article for our blog on the
italian water commons issues,

Michel

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:21 AM, magius <gmagius at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 2010/5/10 Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
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>> Finally, we need a political extension, one that, based on a
>> commons-oriented policy framework, and a push towards replacing the
>> corporate welfare state with a Partner State, that institutes commonfare
>> (Andrea Fumagalli) and retakes control of the ‘commanding heights of the
>> economy’, now in the hands of the destructive predatory factions that have
>> taken control of the market states (as proposed by Nick Dyer-Whiteford).
>>
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> In Italy on April 24 started a campaign to promote a referendum against
> water privatization.
> During the campaign preparation there was a debate about about water
> management. The referendum proposes to go back to a public management, but
> during the discussion emerged also positions in favour of a not-statual
> public management. In the italian Constitution there's a forgotten article
> (article 43) that says is possible to assign commons' management (essential
> public services) not only to State but also to "workers' or users'
> communities". Imho that's the institutional starting point to think
> commonfare.
>
> But how could work a water community management? Perhaps an interesting
> model to refer is the english common law. One institution that could be used
> to start commons' not-statual public management is the "Community Land
> Trust" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_land_trust).
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