https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-phyles-economic-democracy-in-the-network-century/2012/06/29 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 10 Oct 2018 11:37:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-phyles-economic-democracy-in-the-network-century/2012/06/29/comment-page-1#comment-492312 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:06:35 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24568#comment-492312 phyle: A large citizens’ organization based on kinship, constituting the largest political subdivision of an ancient Greek city-state, a tribe or clan of an ancient Greek people such as the Ionians (tfd.com) Phyle (Greek ???? phul?, “clan, race, people”, derived from ancient Greek ??????? “to descend, to originate”) is an ancient Greek term for clan or tribe. (wikipedia) So I don’t like phyle very much. For groups organized by common skills and abilities I prefer the term union or guild, or by common mission or activities the term league, and for groups organized around common values, beliefs, or interests I prefer the term community.

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