Comments on: Hacking the State https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/hacking-the-state/2011/04/06 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:41:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Poor Richard https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/hacking-the-state/2011/04/06/comment-page-1#comment-482659 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:08:12 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=15073#comment-482659 I think the term “hack the state” works beautifully for the digital activist and the internet-savvy white collar worker. Maybe not so beautifully for “mom and pop” or the blue-collar workers here in the US.

But I like it and I would add “hack capitalism, hack the corporation, hack the bank, hack property”, etc.

Curiously, many such “hacks” already exist in the history of progressive movements in the US. But neither the old-school progressive terminology nor the hacking terminology work well for much of “Middle America”.

My own tentative umbrella term for interdisciplinary hacking of capitalism, corporations, banking, property, and democracy is “Green Free Enterprise”.

]]> By: Poor Richard https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/hacking-the-state/2011/04/06/comment-page-1#comment-482657 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:48:48 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=15073#comment-482657 Toni, I think the term “hack the state” works beautifully for the digital activist and the internet-savvy white collar worker. Maybe not so beautifully for “mom and pop” or the blue-collar workers here in the US.

But I like it and I would add “hack capitalism, hack the corporation, hack the bank, hack property”, etc.

Curiously, many such “hacks” already exist in the history of progressive movements in the US. But neither the old-school progressive terminology nor the hacking terminology work well for much of “Middle America”.

My own tentative umbrella term for interdisciplinary hacking of capitalism, corporations, banking, property, and democracy is “Green Free Enterprise”.

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