https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-grand-alliance-for-the-commons-the-task-of-21-cy-politics/2010/04/02 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 05 May 2012 21:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-grand-alliance-for-the-commons-the-task-of-21-cy-politics/2010/04/02/comment-page-1#comment-491596 Sat, 05 May 2012 21:46:31 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=7984#comment-491596 Michel, I agree, but it’s important to mention that pseudo-abundance and artificial scarcity are not simply passive “errors”. They are actively imposed regimes, constantly being extended and reinforced by those who benefit from them. Educating unwitting victims (and perhaps unwitting perpetrators) may be the easiest stage of what is surely an existential struggle.

]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-grand-alliance-for-the-commons-the-task-of-21-cy-politics/2010/04/02/comment-page-1#comment-491593 Sat, 05 May 2012 16:01:48 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=7984#comment-491593 Excellent post. For a detailed elaboration of all this, see Peter Barnes’ book “Capitalism 3.0,” which has among its many virtues the fact that its author is a person of achievement and innovation in both the progressive and business communities: a rare mix of talents. The work that my wife Deborah Popper and I have done on the Buffalo Commons as a likely future theme of much of land-use planning in the Great Plains is also relevant here. For more information on the Buffalo Commons, which Barnes cites, see my Rutgers website, policy/rutgers.edu/faculty/popper. The only national organization that explicitly aims at creating the Buffalo Commons is the Texas-based Great Plains Restoration Council. gprc.org, where Jarid Manos, great [email protected] is president and i chair the board. Another important group is the New Mexico-based National Center for Frontier Communities, frontierus.org, whose executive director is Charlie Alfero, [email protected] and where Deborah and I are on its board. The group advocates and doe research on small remote isolated communities not just in the West or the Great Plains, but throughout the country. Best wishes,
Frank Popper
Rutgers and Princeton Universities
[email protected], [email protected]
848-932-2790

]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-grand-alliance-for-the-commons-the-task-of-21-cy-politics/2010/04/02/comment-page-1#comment-485508 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:38:47 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=7984#comment-485508 […] Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism WorldwideIn my writings on P2P Theory, I have a rather simple, but I believe true, formula to describe the crisis of the global system of neoliberal capitalism. Namely, – i.e. based on a false belief that nature is infinitely abundant as a resource to be used by humanity, without regard for the finitude of our planet, the necessary cycles of renewal in nature, etc… Nature is an object to be depleted, and for waste to be dumped in. This is what I call ‘pseudo-abundance’ – i.e. based on the false belief, disproved again and again by studies, that the exchange of knowledge regarding innovation, culture and science have to be restricted artificially, in an exaggerated manner that protects monopolies and their rent-based income. This is what I call artificial scarcity.Show original […]

]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-grand-alliance-for-the-commons-the-task-of-21-cy-politics/2010/04/02/comment-page-1#comment-425349 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:31:41 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=7984#comment-425349 Terrific post, Michel. I’ve taken the liberty of quoting it, in the context of related ideas from Marko Ulvila and Gus Speth, at Common action: synthesis of progressive forces.

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