Following up on the last post:
Regarding
Bauwens' comments on accelerationism in the initial post, he's right
that we don't gain power via direct political power. It requires instead
for us to "create prefigurative livelihoods which actually embody
different post-capitalist logics, and to build social and political
forces around this concrete transformative change."
I'm
currently reading Dark Money by Jane Myer, which documents how the
libertarian capitalists took back power in government. It was not by
direct contributions to candidates or direct participation in that
government but by building subversive networks of think tanks disguised
as philanthropic foundations that propagandized their 'free market'
ideology. Through this the wealthy could 'donate' tax-free dollars to
inculcate these values in schools, media, the courts and finally
legislators. You can hear these values verbatim any time a Republican
legislator opens their mouth, when out comes the pre-fab ideas and laws
of the American Legislative Exchange Council.
So
granted, the P2P Commons espouses different values, but must use a
similar strategy in that it starts by building the base infrastructure
of livlihoods and practices that exemplify and embody these
post-capitalist logics. In so doing this will filter into larger social
and political forces to transform the system. We're seeing this in the
Sanders candidacy, where he wins by far among the Millennials, who have
been inculcated in the new values via social media and its P2P sharing
infrastructure. This will only accelerate when more of us start
producing material goods via 3-D printers and in-home alternative energy
production, thereby creating local micro-economies that are nonetheless
connected globally via the internet of things.
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