Re: [ox-en] Re: Personal/impersonal concrete/abstract
- From: Michael Bouwens <michelsub2003 yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:06:09 -0800 (PST)
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I summarize my own understanding of this. Tribal and feudal societies were personal concrete, but the former based on un-free kinship and the second on coercive domination; capitalism is based in impersonal relations, neutral exchange which creates no obligation, and an abstract machine centered around money, with its own logic that is alienated from human needs.
In peer to peer, we retain some of the advantages of the impersonal (in the sense that you do not have to be friends or family to be active in peer production, you do not have to know each other), but it is again personal because it is driven by true human needs.
See also the treatment in this blog entry, at http://blog.p2pfoundation.com/?p=105 . Feel free to add any further comments there.
I discuss how peer governance deals with alienation of power in sections 4.2 and 4.3 of my manuscript, see http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/4._P2P_in_the_Political_Sphere
Michel
Free Software does this very well. How does it do this exactly? Well,
that's probably the core of the OHA/ODA (Organization, Domination,
Anarchism) question.
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