Dmytri Kleiner, a German mutualist activist, who recently published a Telekommunisten Manifesto, argues a free market is impossible under capitalist conditions: “Capitalism depends on the appropriation of value for its subsistence and growth. The disingenuous rhetoric of the “Free Market” is a smoke screen to justify a system of privilege and exploitation, better called the… Continue reading
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Copyfarleft and Copyjustright
Challenges to traditional copyright resulting from peer-to-peer applications, free software, filesharing and appropriation art have caused a wide ranging debate on the future of copyright. Dmytri Kleiner brings existing critiques of material property from the left to bear upon the realm of copyleft artistic production and asks how, within the existing copyright regime, can artists… Continue reading
Finding the Forest in the Trees: How I Stumbled into a Socioeconomic Model, Pt 2.
Part 2 of my narrative on discovering a socioeconomic model, which I call “utilicontributism,” for the time being. In addition to the authors and books mentioned in part 1, I also want to mention the works of Patrick Anderson, Christian Siefkes, and Dmytri Kleiner, whose writings helped frame and test perspectives I had not encountered… Continue reading
The intersection between the immaterial and material economies: how can it work?
I’ve been involved in a mailing list debate on the Oekonux list with Dmytri Kleiner, who denies that peer production is non-reciprocal because it cannot sustain itself on its own. This is a very important point that I would like to clarify. Peer production indeed has a problem with this, because peer projects are at… Continue reading
Stefan Meretz: a critique of the copyfarleft proposal
In our blog and wiki, we are monitoring various attempts to ‘radicalize’ the existing free software/copyleft and Creative Commons type of licenses. For example, the IANG License and the User-Ownership approach. See our page on Equity-based licenses for access to debate about these licenses. One of the better known ideas comes from Dmitry Kleiner, and… Continue reading
The importance of ownership for peer production
How important is it to own things, in the context of a social agenda that favours collaborative production and peer to peer dynamics? I see roughly two polarities in the debate. On the one hand, there are those who think that nothing is fundamentally changing until we tackle the ownership structure. This is voiced by… Continue reading
Dialstation project launches labour IPO
Dmytri Kleiner and the collective that brought us Dialstation is continuing to construct an alternative mode of owning and producing. Here is their most recent announcement: “On May 1st 2007, Telekommunisten launched it’s first consumer product, Dialstation, which allows inexpensive international telephone calls to be made from any normal or mobile telephone and includes a… Continue reading
Do we need more radical open licenses?
I have recently created a page on our wiki, to serve as a portal entry to different proposals to have open licenses that have a stronger element of social equity built-in. Check our entry here, to have access to Patrick Godeau’s IANG License, Patrick Anderson’s ideas on User Ownership, and Dmytri Kleiner’s proposal for a… Continue reading
Dialstation: low cost radical business model and self-bank for the poor?
Dmytri Kleiner, with whom we had a lively discussion some time back, has launched an initiative which marries business and radical ideas, in the form of a very low-cost platform for international mobile phones. Here’s the info as summarized for IDC. You can find more information at their website as well. Dmytri writes that: “mobile… Continue reading
From the Communism of Capital to Capital for the Commons: Towards an Open Co-operativism
Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis Michel Bauwens’ and Vasilis Kostakis’ breakthrough paper, “From the Communism of Capital to Capital for the Commons: Towards an Open Co-operativism” was originally published by Triple C: Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. It was also featured as part of Heathwood Press’ Global Voice Project. It’s an excellent time… Continue reading