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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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Meet the hardest working man in Commons Oriented Peer Production, Michel Bauwens at the Melbourne School of Design on December 4th. 
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Michel Bauwens focuses on three specific realms crucial to a Commons-Based Economy – ecological sustainability, open knowledge and social solidarity.
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Work on developing Commons Based Reciprocity Licenses (or CBRLs, for short) continues apace here at the P2P Foundation. When speaking of the types of licenses, we often find it hard to explain how they fill a niche in the alt. license spectrum, falling somewhere between the straight up copyleft and the popular Creative Commons Non-Commercial License.
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We are now inviting contributions to this special edition of the Journal of Peer Production in the form of short essays of between 1000 and 3000 words to complement the longer peer reviewed articles that will appear in thisedition of the journal, due to be published in December 2014 The contributions can be testimonies, working papers and critical essays by researchers and practitioners. Debates are essays by several authors expressing clearly contrasting viewpoints about a relevant issue.
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On the one hand we have a re-emergence of the cooperative movement and worked-owned enterprises, but they suffer from structural weaknesses. Cooperative entities work for their own members, are reluctant to accept new cooperators that would share existing profits and benefits, and are practitioners of the same proprietary knowledge and artificial scarcities as their capitalist counterparts. Even though they are internally democratic, they often participate in the same dynamics of capitalist competition which undermines their own cooperative values.
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One of the abiding debates about the Internet is the extent to which it represents a step change in the way that societies — and economies — will function in the future. What is undeniable is that the Web has sparked a growing number of "free" and "open" movements that challenge current economic models — including the Free and Open Source Software movements, the Open Access Movement, Open Source Journalism, and Creative Commons. Many also believe that the peer-to-peer (P2P) phenomenon has significant implications for the traditional top-down model on which modern societies are based.
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Join our friends from the Chicago Chamber of the Commons to discuss our Commons Transition plans
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Activism, Commons, Commons Transition, Culture & Ideas, Ethical Economy, Featured Book, Guest Post, P2P Action Items, P2P Bibliography, P2P Books, P2P Collaboration, P2P Development, P2P Foundation, P2P Theory, Peer Production, Politics, Sharing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Contribute to the phase transition first; and be ready for the coming sparks and organic events that will require the mobilization of all.
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Thanks to Irma Wilson of FutureSharp, South Africa, for her assistance in producing this screencast, presenting the different proposals of the P2P Foundation on one overview slide, which is explained here: “The three key responses we see from the world in crisis can be grouped as the movements around Sustainability, Openness and Solidarity, gives the …
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Here’s Michel Bauwens in conversation with Álvaro Andoin on the need for P2P. Although the original interview was recorded over a year ago in Michel’s last visit to Spain, it’s still highly relevant and totally cool as culo.
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The General Assembly of the Catalan Integral Cooperative has confirmed a proposed partnership with the P2P Foundation.
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