Re: [ox-en] There is no such thing like "peer money"
- From: "Michel Bauwens" <michelsub2004 gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:03:16 +0700
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He brought up the issue that there are big cultural differences totally
neglected in Marxist theory, not in Marx ouvre thouh. Marx took the issue
dead serious, as his letter to Vera Sassulitsch and his long preparatory
studies show.
do you have any reference to that letter?
(by the way, my recent discoveries are here
http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Marxism)
The question is: are there some cultures habitually more prone to adapt
cooperative schemes of production? Particulary in Eastern cultures.
This is a very interesting but also complex theme. I believe that there are
both invariant structural development issues (the partial truth of systems
like Spiral Dynamics), and culturally specific social-DNA systems
(marvellously explained in this key book:
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Civilization-Streams-Achievements-Differences/dp/059520550X
)
For example, why is techno-savvy Japan not taking up the internet, but
focused on the mobile instead, this is a discussion by a japanese
anthropologist researcher,
http://www.experientia.com/blog/mito-akiyoshi-the-digital-divide-does-not-vanish-with-the-mobile/.
Similarly, why are Africans using mobile to develop an alternative currency
(airtime) and Chinese workers using it to better their working conditions,
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/is-the-internet-empowering-chinese-workers/2008/07/05.
These are all local adaptations that fit bot the mindsets and needs.
All this being said, if we take equipotentiality seriously, as well as the
adage 'designing for convergence of individual and collective interest' and
we are open to the cultural input of all, then the quest for human
emancipation can be adaptive and find the proper forms under localized
leadership.
This is for example why the P2P Foundation is not a party or movement but a
pluralist network,
Michel
I think this deserves very much attention from our side. It occurs to me
that the Oekonux conference never dealt with that subject - "P2P traditions
and new possibilities in the information age".
Cant go more into the subject now, maybe others can pitch in.
Franz
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