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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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Why Paul Mason is wrong: you can't innovate away social oppression | P2P Foundation

Why Paul Mason is wrong: you can't innovate away social oppression | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Excerpted from a critique of the PostCapitalism thesis by Kate Aronoff: “Matt Taibbi wrote in 2010, banks are a “highly sophisticated engine for converting the useful, deployed wealth of society into the least useful, most wasteful and insoluble substance on Earth — pure profit for rich individuals.” Technology is just another hurdle they can ably …
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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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