Anyway, I noticed that
Pirate Party is seen as left-wing or anarchist even in some places. This is
simply not true. They have a narrow program about reforming copyright and
patent, stop surveillence and keep the net open. Not small things of course,
but that's it, call it what you want. If anyone want to connect this to
other kinds of politics, it can be done, but you have to connect to them
with an external relation. "Pirate Party does this in the EU, to us this is
very connected to this other issue". Maybe this sounds strange for someone
coming from the very polarized italian political environment, but here it
works very well to do it in this project or issue driven, pragmatic way. To
collaborate with people on some projects where on other projects it would be
impossible because you would totally disagree. I mean even the guys running
the Pirate Bay don't agree on shit except that they want to run a bittorrent
tracker.
I'm not too keen on cathegorizing the complex movements of politics but in a
way it is beyond left and right. Not because it's some kind of neutral
politics of the middle but the range of supporters and antagonists are all
over the political spectrum and a failure of handling these issues within
the traditional political actors. Dominant parties on both left and right
are working for more surveillence. The issue of copyright is both defended
and attacked from both sides. We enjoy this confusion at the moment because
it opens up new political spaces and thinking, something which is
desperately needed. So maybe it's not apolitical, but omnipolitical.