Issue on meta debate: Old or new tool set? (was: Re: [jox] Free Software Special Issue)
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:19:54 +0200
Hi StefanMz and all!
3 days ago Stefan Meretz wrote:
Thus, I would draw somewhat different consequences, namely: Let us
organize the debate around these questions, and let us use the journal
for that purpose.
Sounds good. But that would need a meta approach like this: Is it more
useful to use leftist tools [1]_ to understand the phenomenon of peer
production adequately or do we need new tools?
.. [1] Or maybe more generally: tools from the capitalist realm.
To accomplish this we could take one aspect of peer production and
apply both tool sets on this aspect, compare the results and draw a
conclusion - or leave it to the reader. A comparison needs to take
into account that the new tool set can not be as mature as the old
one.
My only fear is, that there are only a few persons
openly pushing the "breaking" side forward, so that finally the approach
is completely underrepresented and the debate will not take place.
If we organize an issue around such a meta debate we are able to make
sure that both approaches are represented in a fair way.
This would also be a better topic than Oekonux - as I proposed lately.
What do people think?
Grüße
Stefan