Comments on: Peer production, the guilds, and the washing machine https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/peer-production-the-guilds-and-the-washing-machine/2008/01/01 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:26:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Atle https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/peer-production-the-guilds-and-the-washing-machine/2008/01/01/comment-page-1#comment-168682 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:26:01 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/peer-production-the-guilds-and-the-washing-machine/2008/01/01#comment-168682 “In traditional marxist terms, two societies described like this would have different modes of production. But in this case there is only one society, and while almost the whole of society produces in the first way, only a tiny, though growing, part produces in the second.”

Marx was actually writing about the emerging and dominant mode of production. Especially in his native Germany the feudal mode of production was dominant for a very long time. And even in the UK where the capitalist mode of production and proletarianzation had gone very far, there were still remnants of the old society. Even today capitalist penetration is not total, and we still have several modes of production existing side by side with the capitalist one. In fact, feudalist and family modes of production have made a resurgence quite recently and is very complementary to neo-liberal globalization.

]]> By: Florent https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/peer-production-the-guilds-and-the-washing-machine/2008/01/01/comment-page-1#comment-166685 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:05:40 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/peer-production-the-guilds-and-the-washing-machine/2008/01/01#comment-166685 : we must wait for the invention of matter transmitters before it becomes possible." 3D printers seem to be coming sooner than expected. Plus, the open electronics movement (ex: http://www.openpattern.org, http://www3.elphel.com/ ...) may be an early proof of these changes in the hardware field. Nowadays one can create an electronic board and let it made (ex: http://www.expresspcb.com/). And this is a very early stage... Is it really that far away ? This video may be of interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spr5PWiuRaY]]> “If it is the first, then production of material goods in the same way needs them to be ‘dematerialized’: we must wait for the invention of matter transmitters before it becomes possible.”

3D printers seem to be coming sooner than expected. Plus, the open electronics movement (ex: http://www.openpattern.org, http://www3.elphel.com/ …) may be an early proof of these changes in the hardware field. Nowadays one can create an electronic board and let it made (ex: http://www.expresspcb.com/). And this is a very early stage… Is it really that far away ?

This video may be of interest:

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