Comments on: Background to the Fifth Free Culture Forum: the history and future of free culture https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/background-to-the-fifth-free-culture-forum-the-history-and-future-of-free-culture/2012/10/16 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 19 Oct 2012 02:38:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Poor Richard https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/background-to-the-fifth-free-culture-forum-the-history-and-future-of-free-culture/2012/10/16/comment-page-1#comment-493370 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 02:38:46 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=26962#comment-493370 As long as we allow the excessive concentration of power to exist in our societies, that power will overwhelm much of our efforts at change whether it be free culture, new commons, p2p, green economics, or whatever.

Whatever methods and idioms we employ in pursuing our economic goals, we need to be especially vigilant that we exclude the power elites from any benefit from our activities.

Among other things that means we must enclose all the value we produce within our groups, communities, subcultures, etc. from exploitation by the rich.

Free Software has failed miserably at that. I hope Free Culture doesn’t make the same mistakes.

Poor Richard

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