* Book: The Telekommunist Manifesto. Dmytri Kleiner. Institute for Network Cultures, 2010 Dmytri Kleiner’s new book is available for download via http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/%233notebook_telekommunist.pdf From the Publisher’s Description: ” In the age of international telecommunications, global migration and the emergence of the information economy, how can class conflict and property be understood? Drawing from political economy and… Continue reading
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Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of peer production ideology
(republished from July 2010) By Dmytri Kleiner: “Imaging that a “better” copyright system or a “freer” Internet could exist within the present system of economic relations is to misplace the deterministic factors. The intrinsic truth in arguments against copyright and the clear technical superiority of distributed technologies over centralized ones have not been the deciding… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner’s Critique of Peer Production Ideology
By Dmytri Kleiner: “Imaging that a “better” copyright system or a “freer” Internet could exist within the present system of economic relations is to misplace the deterministic factors. The intrinsic truth in arguments against copyright and the clear technical superiority of distributed technologies over centralized ones have not been the deciding factors in the ultimate… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner: a proper place for the market
This is an update to the debate about post-capitalism, by mutualist Dmytri Kleiner: “I believe that we must use money and markets in building the new society in the shell of the old, I do not however hold them as an ideal. I fully believe that specialization of labour implies exchange, however exchange does not… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner proposes new commons-oriented license
Dmytri Kleiner has written a Marxist critique of both the limitations of the General Public Licene and the Creative Commons license (for Mute Magazine), which ends with a proposal for a new type of Copyfarleft license which would disallow commercial usage, but only by private firms. It is not similar, but reminds us of a… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of Benkler – discussion with Bauwens, continued, part three
Dear Dmytri, Thanks for your valuable and thoughtful contribution to this debate. Here are some of my responses, which hopefully clarifies both the distinctions and convergence in our respective thinking about social change. First of all, the ‘confusion’ bit. I’m basically using the intersubjective typology of Alan Page Fiske, explained in his book, Structures of… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of Benkler – discussion with Bauwens, continued, part two
Michel Bauwens of the P2P foundation has made some comments regarding my views on free production as expressed in my recent review of the presentations of Lessig and Benkler at Wizards of OS 4, you can find the here Michel begins wondering if my argument about the “sustainability of peer production may rest on a… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of Yochai Benkler
In the same article that we discussed yesterday, D. Kleiner offers a critique of Benkler’s theory of commons-based peer production being limited to the immaterial sphere. He writes: “Yochai Benkler’s conception of Social Production, where a network of peers apply their labour to a common stock for mutual and individual benefit, certainly resonates with age-old… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of the Lessig’ Creative Commons license
In our P2P Encyclopedia entry on the Creative Commons license, we feature some critical comments from Benjamin Mako Hill and the Debian Foundation, about the insuffiency of the CC-licenses. Here’s a more recent critique by Dmytri Kleiner, who argues that: “For free cultural to create a valuable common stock it must destroy the privilege of… Continue reading
Bauwens, Kleiner, Restakis on Cooperative, Commons-based venture funding
A must-listen trialogue between Michel Bauwens, Dmytri Kleiner and John Restakis sketching out proposals for radical new economic models that draw on the best from the Co-op, commons and P2P and Venture Communism movements. This conversation was originally recorded by KMO of the C-Realm Podcast. Excerpted from the podcast: “KMO remote-hosts a trialogue between Michel Bauwens, Dmytri… Continue reading
The Benkler/Lessig Bauwens/Kleiner debate, part four
Dmytri Kleiner sends us a new reaction: Thank you Michel, it is a great pleasure to discuss this topic with you, I am not sure however, that your last contribution can be seen as a response to my comments, which you appear more or less to agree with some part of, so much as an… Continue reading
The Benkler/Lessig Bauwens/Kleiner debate: recap page
We’are creating this page, so that you have direct access to the continuing debate on peer production. Do click on the individual entries, so that you have access to the comments as well, as there is a lot of added material there as well. It started with Dmytri Kleiner’s original posting reviewing and critiquing the… Continue reading
How to Create a Thriving Global Commons Economy
Not since Marx identified Manchester’s manufacturing plants as blueprints for the new capitalist society have our political economy’s fundamentals faced a more profound transformation. As structural crises beset capitalism, a new mode of production is emerging: commons-based peer production. This piece by Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis was originally published on The Next System.org. Download… Continue reading
Coopyright: at last a reciprocal licence to make the link between Commons and ESS?
One of the pragmatic solutions supported by the P2P Foundation is the CopyFair license, which combines free knowledge sharing, with a demand for reciprocity for the commons’ base, in case of commercialization. Coopify is an example of such a license, developed by the Coop des Communs in France, and association which works on commons-cooperative convergence… Continue reading
An Internet of ownership: democratic design for the online economy
The following article was published in The Sociological Review 66, no. 2 (March 2018). Updated 2018.02.05. The disappointments of the online economy – for instance, user surveillance and systemic labor abuses – stem at least in part from its failures to meaningfully share ownership and governance with relevant stakeholders. Under the banner of ‘platform cooperativism’,… Continue reading
Universal basic services could work better than basic income to combat ‘rise of the robots’
Continuing the conversation on Basic Income, which has been widely covered in this blog, we now turn to something more akin to Dmytri Kleiner’s concept of Basic Outcome, where essential services (and rights) are provided outside of the market sphere. It would, however, be wise to combine Universal Basic Services described by ULC/IGP with our proposals for… Continue reading