Comments on: This year you’ll seize the means of production https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/this-year-youll-seize-the-means-of-production/2017/01/13 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:01:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Matias https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/this-year-youll-seize-the-means-of-production/2017/01/13/comment-page-1#comment-1578212 Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:01:30 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=62739#comment-1578212 Hi there! Matias, from Argentina.
It would be nice that the platform could be translated to other languages (I am thinking of spanish of course but it could be useful to others) as in a wiki (or perhaps add it to the fundraiser)
I am only starting to learn about coops and open coops and all that, but I have the feeling than , even if in my country coops are wide spread, there is no knowledge or no connection with the open software movement whatsoever. For example, I’ve seen in a video people recommending the use of WhatsApp for group communication.

Also, a lot of the articles I’ve read here are pretty optimistic and it doesn’t look like they consider any struggle with government or other businesses (as is the case in my country and most latin america which is under a strong neo-liberal counter offensive).
As in some lectures by Zizek, that he states the downsides of certain type of communism, it would be educating to read stories of failure, of difficulties and wrong paths of the coop movement, not to spread a sense of ill destiny or negativity, but to learn about the dangerous paths and what may need to be sacrificed and what may need to be born from it.

Thanks for everything and have a prosperous but-not-in-the-sense-of-accumulating-capital year 🙂

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