Erik Douglas concludes his important contribution with this appeal for “Realizing a P2P Polis”:

Without a clear vision of an ideal polis, one can still take steps towards a better world. Indeed, as Sam Rose/ Paul Hartzog (P2P 147: 10/10/06) both note, unless the P2P engage in the battle for the polis, there may not come a “tipping point” where the larger society dramatically alters in its cultural, social, economic and other respects.

My own efforts to achieve a polis more available to change include support of many groups, including the EFF and other free-media advocacy groups. In addition, I am actively engaged with the green parties of several locations I call home (I have many nations) – to speak more than platitudes about the green party(ies) would require another article, but they are commonly founded and bonded through “Ten Key Values” that are surprisingly resonant with principles endorsed here. In my capacity as a green party activist, I find more and more that I am introducing structures and programming code into their institutions that bear a striking resemblance to those appearing here.

Finally, I would add that, strangely, there is a shortage of long term theoretical thinking about how to orchestrate the polis – in the green party, but also everywhere. Indeed, it is a little as if the majority of enterprising intellectuals have resigned themselves to a hopeful anarchy premised on anything but the explicitly political, as if all such ideas were passé throwbacks to a pre-postmodern era. In this respect, I am undertaking the creation of a new kind of think tank dedicated to the realization of a genuinely democratic polis, one which I hope in time will serve humanity by reminding it of a few worthwhile ideas we once had. And it should go without saying that, integral to the project, everyone is invited…