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Re: [ox-en] FW: [spectre] Pirates at the Parliament: the big dream?! - An Interview with Magnus Eriksson from Piratebyran



Hi list!

5 days ago Mathieu O'Neil wrote:
Magnus Eriksson:
[...]
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.

And especially:

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.
[...]

Well, IMHO there are two possible interpretations of this mismatch to
the classical left-right scheme:

* Pirate Party is a single issue party

  For a single issue party it is quite easy to fit nowhere well into
  the left-right scheme. And clearly the Pirate Party - so far - is a
  single issue party.

  I remember that the Green party said very similar things when they
  started. In fact in Germany it was a combination of old communists
  and people concerned about the environment with sometimes very
  conservative mind-sets.

* Pirate Party expresses and represents a new mode of production

  Well, given the program at the moment this is of course not the
  case. But the Pirate Party in it's current state could be seen as a
  precursor of a real party which represents the social movement of
  peer production in the parliaments.

  And such a party which represents a new mode of production would
  easily fall outside the left-right scheme - because the left-right
  scheme is part of the old system.


						Grüße

						Stefan
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