Comments on: David Bollier: towards a digital republic https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/david-bollier-towards-a-digital-republic/ Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 13 Oct 2014 19:40:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.17 By: Dr. Strangelove https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/david-bollier-towards-a-digital-republic/comment-page-1/#comment-419549 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:10:34 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=5732#comment-419549 Excellent speech — have made it required reading for my Media Industries course. New media led to the notion of private property in the 16/17 century. New new media can free us from the golden chains of capitalism if we make the right choices.

Dr. Strangelove
University of Ottawa
Author of Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement.

]]> By: Sepp https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/david-bollier-towards-a-digital-republic/comment-page-1/#comment-419515 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:56:14 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=5732#comment-419515 In the digital republic, as proposed here, we have the seed for a new civilization.

Eventually, this will encompass also a different financial economy, where the credit commons can no longer be monopolized by the banks. Means of payment different from those imposed by the state will spring up and revive (local) production and commerce, providing a viable alternative to what today is called “the market”.

We will also develop a different way of governing ourselves. In the digital republic the word democracy – perhaps for the first time in history – will actually come to mean a real world social system of governing our own affairs, rather than being a thin excuse for “government” of the weak by the powerful.

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