Comments on: The Communal State project in Venezuela https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-communal-state-project-in-venezuela/2014/06/11 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sun, 06 Sep 2015 01:46:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: David https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-communal-state-project-in-venezuela/2014/06/11/comment-page-1#comment-1355873 Sun, 06 Sep 2015 01:46:45 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=39507#comment-1355873 The problem with the case of Venezuela goes beyond official announcements made by its president or the inherent potential of collaborative social models yet undeveloped. Venezuela’s economy suffers from a serious misuse of their proportionally gigantic GDP among other structural factors related to their public institutions. A social crisis related to intense and historical social class clashes, a high consumerist culture and a lack of any sort of social contract make of any attempts from innovative socio economic models like p2p, just an sterile proposal unable to launch itself form its theoretical realm.

Western societies like European countries can hope to achieve such social and economic transformations (and even to catch a glimpse of them on reality) thanks to their highly evolved social development. Sharing a car or a bike without worrying of it being stolen or abused, or having access to the means to build a commonly designed car are benefits that only countries from the first world can enjoy in the practice.

Sure, the principle behind the whole p2p paradigm its what matters at this stage of our evolution as a global society, but using the Venezuelan case as an example to illustrate how these p2p concepts can be implemented, without regarding the major failures the venezuelan example embodies, results nonetheless as deeply misleading.

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