The fact that following the EU elections the murdered civilians in critical conflicts like in Ukraine, Gazza, Syria, and Iraq rapidly increased, is alarming. These might be the last warnings for the approaching 'train accident', going to be caused by the elite in fight on the steering wheel. The models and systems of managing the status-Que does not work and as they are unable to deliver the new. The ruling classes leading entire world in to a catasptrohpe of yet another corrective war is inevitable. This situation is felt shared, yet not shout out. Yet it has re-flamed (again) the discussion and exchange of ideas and practises on the 'transition', with its revolutionary, reformist or synthetic (Refo-lution/REvolution) versions. To 'get it' this time is becoming more and more mortal in every second.
So the question of solidarity, alliances, platforms, unity, front, blocks so on is back in almost every context without exception... It is not really clearly to some of us, where will fit the new and influential concepts like the Commons, FLOSS, P2P, collaborative, distributed networks, so on... I sincerely believe that the coincidentally overlap between the final summit of the very intriguing Free and Libre Knowledge (FLOK) Society research and policy-formation experiment in Ecuador, and the EU elections where some left wing parties did achieve relative success, yet not in comparison to the success of the radical right. This shows that currently ruling classes are losing ground. Yet does this also mean that the discourse' or 'transition' (backward) project of the right wing is more accessible and appealing to large portion of societies; then the Left currently offer in Europe? What have been learning from recent experiences, experiments, from bottom up, in the middle, from top down.... in terms of real emancipatory change, or change might help to make a real change... interventions and step forwards at all levels and from all directions, with the involvement by and engagement with actors that are potential 'peers', peer producers or collaborators, commoners of the 'commons transitions' as flos projects and processes? Are we able to vision and realise much brighter alternatives then the right-wing/conservative/fascist backward going > capitalist-revisionist > neo or post capitalist perspectives. After some re-reading and thinking through these lines, >Tribe>Community>Town>State>PartnerState>NonState>... I realised that P2P Foundation, although there are important issues to subject to criticism or discuss about, yet one need to acknowledge the immense contribution it made by collecting resources, supporting communities from variety of levels, and ideological political perspectives: Here are those, I think very remarkable examples of communities and experiences: 1 - CIC http://cooperativa.cat/en/ and the projects they are working on, especially this one:http://www.coopfunding.net/ 2 - Las Indias: http://english.lasindias.com/ 3 - Guerilla Translation!: guerrillatranslation.com ... and there are many more of course, not listed by P2P-F wiki, and I do fail to mention here. Yet good to see that all these work, above, collaborate with and supported by p2p-foundation. the below material collected here, is quite important, for the discussion on transitions and related questions like with or without state, in and out of the state, bottom up or top-down, before and after the state, with who and how, role of the market,... so on? : http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Transition http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_State_Approaches since these provide variety of perspectives, and community experiences, from anarchists, to communists, libertarians, to radical democrats and new movements' perspectives... it is a flos resource.. open to use and contribute, modification. It is wort to engage in deep discussion, on these materials and information, without being harmful to each other, following hacker's ethic. As it was the case for the parts of the discussion sparked after the finalisation of the FLOK project in Ecuador. I suggested that this was a living reach experiment where we can learn a lot from. During the discussions at one point, critical questions turned back to Michel by those who are on the list, including myself, on the issues like 'the partner state idea', or about 'engaging with higher level politics and state' instead of focusing totally to grassroots empowerment and bottom up change. I looked into the 3 examples of communities given above, which are closely linked to P2P foundation, they support to and collaborate with each other, and realised that these are role, prefigurative models for Michel, and all three are visioning stateless and beyond capitalism situation being dominant and they are engaged in building it up right now in the urban environment, using floss tools and inventing all sorts of freely shared ideas, projects, practises cultures. On the other hand Michel himself openly express what he believes on Partner state, transition and alliances. What he writes and tells partly can be seen [in old political lexicon] as reformist. Yet he insist on both bottom up and state level change can be engaged at the same time. and P2P processes can play a key role in linking these to each other. These these are valuable for me to understand the role of advanced collaborative culture and tools in realising simultaneity and multi- levelness of political subjectivity, its logic, and its action. Those example communities are working in different languages, taking to broader communities, and are open to collaborations from variety of ideological or analytical perspectives on transition beyond-capitalism, and thinking-imagining stateless societies. Orsan _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation
