[p2p-research] text of lecture in Milan, November 2010

[Roberto Verzola]

That was beautiful, Michel. Thank you,

Roberto


Michel Bauwens wrote:
> In case of interest, this is a spoken-word style overview of the p2p 
> approach:
>
>
> Michel BAUWENS
>
>  
>
>  
>
> I want to start with a little trip to history.
>
>  
>
> Let’s imagine that we are living at the dawn of human history. Back 
> then there were very small bands and tribes of 30, 40 or 50 people. 
> The women usually went out foraging and the men went hunting. They did 
> it in groups and when they came back from foraging or hunting they had 
> some kind of rule that established that the elderly got this, the 
> female got that. However, anthropologically speaking, the important 
> thing is that the totality of the tribe was a primary entity and the 
> individuals were part of the tribe. In anthropological terms, this is 
> called “communal shareholding”. So at the dawn of human history, the 
> human anthropological system was communal.
>
>  
>