Comments on: The role of the internet and netroots in recent UK social movements (with Tunisia update) https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-role-of-the-internet-and-netroots-in-recent-uk-social-movements/ Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:19:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.17 By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-role-of-the-internet-and-netroots-in-recent-uk-social-movements/comment-page-1/#comment-463556 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:19:25 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=13093#comment-463556 In reply to chris.

I agree with you that the limitations of the protests movement are obvious, but you underestimate the learning process that accompanies such protest, i.e. precisely the impossibility of the current system to still offer a future to young generations, that pushes them to action, i.e. to preserve the social rights obtained by previous generations, but in doing so, they also learn the limits of such actions. What I’m trying to say is that social change will come from a combination of such social mobilization, and the constructive effort to create a counter-economy and education.

]]> By: chris https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-role-of-the-internet-and-netroots-in-recent-uk-social-movements/comment-page-1/#comment-463291 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:36:25 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=13093#comment-463291 While the tools and organisational forms of the protesters in the UK may be ostensibly new, the fixation on them is obscuring the essential fact here – namely that the protesters are demanding the maintenence of the status quo. What has brought student protesters to the streets of London? Cuts which will affect their ability to participate in capitalist society, taking their “rightful” places in the system which they feel are now being denied to them. How many Members of Parliament on the other side of the barricades have previously participated in similar movements?

At a time in which scarcity in education has been destroyed by the Internet (see http://ictlogy.net/20101013-deinstitutionalizing-education/) “radical” would be creating self-learning networks, ignoring universities, fighting the notion of educational scarcity. Instead there is the “spectacular” protests and endless essays about the return to May 68. As I remember the May 68 movements were about the boredom of everyday life, not the inability to participate in the spectcle.

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