Comments - P2P Mode of Foreign Relations - P2P Foundation2024-03-28T17:52:48Zhttp://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2003008%3ABlogPost%3A45411&xn_auth=noVery pleased to see someone w…tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2012-05-23:2003008:Comment:456912012-05-23T01:42:09.272ZTom Griffinhttp://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/TomGriffin
<p>Very pleased to see someone working on a synthesis of Van der Pijl and Bauwens. I think the peer production paradigm could really address some of the possibilities that Van der Pijl raises in the last chapter of Transnational Classes and International Relations (although I have reservations about some of the teleological language here):</p>
<blockquote><p>The rise of a cadre stratum expressing the socialisation dynamic, if necessarily<br></br>in an alienated fashion, and the fact that it already…</p>
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<p>Very pleased to see someone working on a synthesis of Van der Pijl and Bauwens. I think the peer production paradigm could really address some of the possibilities that Van der Pijl raises in the last chapter of Transnational Classes and International Relations (although I have reservations about some of the teleological language here):</p>
<blockquote><p>The rise of a cadre stratum expressing the socialisation dynamic, if necessarily<br/>in an alienated fashion, and the fact that it already several times has followed a<br/>course different from the one desired by the ruling class (however erratic, or<br/>even disastrous, this course may have been), highlights a fault-line in the<br/>structure of advanced capitalist society which is of crucial significance for its<br/>transformation. What these experiences (including the Soviet experience which<br/>in important respects and in the specific circumstances of a contender state role,<br/>forms part of it) teach us is that the cadre stratum requires a reunification with<br/>the working class to merge into the ‘proletarian’ historic subject, humanity<br/>reclaiming its alienated self. In the confrontation between a capitalist class which<br/>has no existence beyond privilege and private property, and a working class<br/>resisting the discipline of capital, the cadres have all along tended to adopt<br/>positions which look beyond the straight class antagonism. In terms of their<br/>historic role they represent what Gorz calls (but unnecessarily restricts to the<br/>marginalised and rejected) the non-class. For even if the general interest which<br/>they claim to represent, is always the idealised special interest of a specific ruling<br/>class constellation at the same time, the drift of their intervention is to overcome<br/>this constraint. As we have argued above, the cadres are the class which<br/>historically performs the role of shaping the structures for a classless society in<br/>the context of class society.</p>
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