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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real 11: Left-Wing Critics of Mason -- Kate Aronoff | P2P Foundation

Framing "political action" as primarily state action, rather than a component of the new counter-institutions the kind of false dichotomy we need to avoid.
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Essay of the Day: Value, Rent, and The Political Economy of Social Media | P2P Foundation

Intervention in an important debate on what is value in the context of peer production. Rigi and Prey argue that the labor theory of value is still operable, contra Fuchs and Negri. * Article: Value, Rent, and The Political Economy of Social Media. Jakob Rigi and Robert Prey. The Information Society 2015, October, Issue 5.... Continue reading →
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Essay of the Day: The Care-Centered Economy | P2P Foundation

The Care-Centered Economy suggests how the idea of “care” could be used to imagine new structural terms for the entire economy.
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Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm | P2P Foundation

Every so often I am invited to write a piece that in effect answers the question, “Why the commons?” I invariably find new answers to that question.
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Essay of the Day: The Transition Towards a Food Commons Regime | P2P Foundation

This paper analyses the main fault lines of the industrial food system and the consequences of the absolute commodification of food.
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The dark side of digital finance: On financial machines, financial robots & financial AI | P2P Foundation

If the future of finance is going to be digital, we want it to be populated with those who value the deeper tenets of open source philosophy
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Freelancers: let’s get organised | P2P Foundation

Self employment levels used to be a measure of how underdeveloped an economy was. Now it has become something that is celebrated across developed countries.
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COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P BUSINESS MODELS PEER PROPERTY

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Record numbers of self-employed enter new tax year... and the co-operative model is here to help | P2P Foundation

Cooperatives UK have just released an in depth report full of examples of best practices for co-operatives collaborating to meet the needs of workers
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Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real 7: Analysis: Comparison of the Two Strands of Techno-Utopianism | P2P Foundation

Right-wing techno-libertarianism is a last-ditch effort to capture the technologies of freedom and abundance and harness them to their own greed.
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From basic income to social dividend: sharing the value of common resources | P2P Foundation

It’s time to examine and broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income
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COMMONS TRANSITION ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARINGcommons tr

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Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real 4: John Holloway — Other Non-Capitalist Techno-Utopianisms | P2P Foundation

John Holloway sees socialist models based on taking state power as reproducing rather than abolishing the capital-labor relationship in many ways.

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Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real 2: Categories of Leftist Techno-Utopianism

So rather than asking “What happened to Occupy?” or “What happened to 15-M?

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The City as Platform | P2P Foundation

In the age of ubiquitous Internet connections and data, the vitality of cities is increasingly based on their ability to use networks intelligently.

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Beyond Development: The Commons as a New/Old Paradigm of Human Flourishing | P2P Foundation

David Bollier's presentation to the Agence Française de Développement in Paris outlining the commons as an alternative vision of "development."
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Essay of the Day: Torrent Poisoning | P2P Foundation

The cultural industries have proven to be surprisingly creative in the strategies they employ to combat piracy substantiated by the documents in this book.
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Essay of the Day: Striking with Social Media | P2P Foundation

A review of the workplace battleground and explore the potential of social media for mobilizing social movements in labor conflicts and beyond
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Towards a Society of the Commons | P2P Foundation

A recent article on a Society of the Commons co-authored by Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis, Alex Pazaitis.
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Mutualized Solutions for the Precariat | P2P Foundation

The 'Not Alone' report offers solution for freelance workers with analyses, useful detail and lessons from the history of co-operatives and mutual aid.
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COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P LABOR PEER PROPERTYommo

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Commons Movements & 'Progressive' Governments as Dual Power | P2P Foundation

A scholarly paper titled "Commons Movements & 'Progressive' Governments as Dual Power: The Potential for Social Transformation in Europe" by A. Broumas.
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Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real 9: Paul Mason | P2P Foundation

The technologies and institutions of post-capitalism are unleashing productive forces that cannot be contained within the productive relations of capitalism
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Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real 8: Areas of commonality | P2P Foundation

Market competition socializes the benefits of technological progress, absent artificial property rights that enable capitalists to enclose them as rent.
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Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real 6: Accelerationism | P2P Foundation

Accelerationism, like autonomism and CBPP wants to decouple productive forces from their capitalist constraints to achieving a world without work.
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Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real 3: Other Non-Capitalist Techno-Utopianisms | P2P Foundation

For the autonomists and like-minded thinkers, the goal is Exodus rather than taking power.

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Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real 5: Michel Bauwens — Other Non-Capitalist Techno-Utopianisms | P2P Foundation

One of the most useful non-Marxist schools is the post-capitalist model of commons-based peer production exposed by Michel Bauwens, from the P2P Foundation.

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The City as Platform | P2P Foundation

In the age of ubiquitous Internet connections and data, the vitality of cities is increasingly based on their ability to use networks intelligently.
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