Comments on: Paul Mason: the P2P Movement has paid insufficient attention to the state https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/paul-mason-the-p2p-movement-has-paid-insufficient-attention-to-the-state/2016/01/06 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 06 Jan 2016 23:56:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Matthew Slater https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/paul-mason-the-p2p-movement-has-paid-insufficient-attention-to-the-state/2016/01/06/comment-page-1#comment-1521815 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 23:56:52 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=53308#comment-1521815 Philosophies such as communism seem to answer the question ‘how can state power be used for good’, but many in the p2p movement might see this as a naive question, especially with what we know now about the deep state, and its elected corporate managers.

Perhaps the p2p movement has nothing to say to the state. The very idea of p2p implies to me self organisation, and the obviation of the state. Much as we might like the power of taxation to pay for p2p coordination services, we might more fruitfully put our attention onto more realistic prospects.

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