On 2007-12-01 05:18, Michael Bauwens wrote:
how can peer producers connect with the older social movements, and
vice versa?
I don't see much options. Traditional social movements like unions are
not only workers movements, but also hard-core working-movements. They
base on wage labour and can't accept any step away from commercial
processes, because M-C-M' (making more money from money) pays their
wages.
For instance, some unions (very few) use free software, because its cool
and sometimes cheaper than using proprietary software. However, they
are completely against copyleft principles and they always argue for a
strict copyright, because they strongly support (artificial) scarcity
as a precondition of selling goods as commodities.
Peer production undermines all this. When you don't have concious
unionists seeing the whole framework and not only employments (as we
have it during our 1st oekonux conference, where we get support from a
local union group infected bei Krisis-thinking), then I see no possible
bridge.
Graham?