Hello,
This Bauwens article, was wrote some weeks ago and is not related
with fair.coop in any way.
Otherwise, I am collaborating with him from last months and i have
better experiences than you. For intance i dont liked
also the partner state reference, and i confirmed with him that it
was needed in the context of Flok society project
to include the funder in the proposal, but he agreed with me and
like more that this transition can be done without the state.
We, as a CIC, are going to work together with p2p-f, in a
transition plan from below without governments, to generate a more
p2p alternative to the first process.
Also, i see as a phalacy to critize fair.coop plans because p2p-f
is involved, because
the 99% of the plan and ideology behind it, comes from me and
other Cooperativa Integral Catalana related comrades. (some of
there also related to dark wallet)
So please, if you want to critize, fair.coop, do this in base of
our background,and the concret plan that we are going to do.
In relation between institutions and protocols. I dont see
contradiction, because we are going to create a open participatory
process
responsible to agree about protocols. Therefore collective
organization could be able to create p2p tools that becames useful
to all the decentralized network
i can see that this has been done succesful diferent times (for
example, FSF with defending free software...).
In this sense the decition process, is very less centralized than
the current practices of a lot of groups that could be involved
https://fair.coop/decisions-process/ and very less than bitcoin
foundation or other bitcoin representative organizations
regs
enric
El 19/09/14 11:12, Nicolas Mendoza escribió:
Don't fall for the positive pandering at the
beginning of the text. That is there only to make it
seem like an honest and impartial analysis. But it is
not, as the manipulation of distribution figures, lack
of dates and references, and use of heavily biased
terminology show.
This is just more Krugman from someone who is unable to
understand Bitcoin and unwilling to think beyond the
rigid framework imposed by Marxist terminology. As
someone relatively close to Bauwens and the P2P
foundation, I have tried for years to make him see how
it is the Dollar-USArmy dynamics that perpetuates
Empire, or how politically controlled currency by
definition fosters an elite class that dominates
society. But such notions are way too close to actual
reality to make a dent in a mind that is already shaped
by a quite rigid abstract universal model and by the
vocabulary in which it is rooted. Trying to reason
Bitcoin with Bauwens has been a very frustrating
experience, since we always come back to some liberal
catchword that is meaningless in the context of the
blockchain.
After working with/for P2P Foundation for some time, I've
grown disillutioned by the direction it has, because the
underlying project is not really P2P. For instance a term
that is being pumped is "The Partner State", which I think
speaks for itself. The Partner State is the contradiction of
the very notion of P2P. In addition to the Partner State,
P2PF discourse has steered towards proposing a society based
on the conformation of a series of institutions that are
aligned with their ideology. This, again, is far from being
a real P2P project. I have expressed repeatedly that for
real P2P we must go beyond platforms, and think in terms of
protocols. As you can see in FairCoin, the important part is
not really the Coin, but the control institutions attached
to it. It's more of the same.
I think it's a combination of ideological rigidity (even if
disguised as a P2P guy, a liberal will always be a liberal),
the inability to think differently due to decades of
ideological conditioning, and sheer lack of imagination.
For the record, I too think Bitcoin is massively flawed, and at
the same time I've been holding some since 2011 for obvious
reasons. The point I want to make is not that Bitcoin is
perfect, but that the Bauwen's critique is irelevant because it
originates exclusively from the fact that Bitcoin differs from
his liberal ideology, and it does not further explore the
complexities, paradoxes and strangeness of Bitcoin in the real
world.
There are other critiques that do, and I find those
much more important, but that is another story.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:08 AM, Joerg
Platzer
<joerg@???>
wrote:
This may be a good moment âto quote the definition
of fascism as defined by its inventor, Benito
Mussolini:
"Fascism as the merging of politacal and corporate
power."
And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, take a look around
you and tell me what kind of system we live in!
++jp
Von:
unSYSTEM <
unsystem-bounces@???>
im Auftrag von Tim Patrick <
judoman589@???>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. September 2014
21:12
An: System undo crew
Betreff: Re: [unSYSTEM] A political
evaluation of Bitcoin by M. Bauwens
Â
So this lad thinks bitcoin will
bring about the negative consequence of
fascism....
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014
at 8:38 AM, Enric Duran Giralt
<
enric@???>
wrote:
Interesting
read
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-political-evaluation-of-bitcoin/2014/09/09
regards
Enric
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