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At 2:54 on March 8, 2011, Matt Rutherford said…
I might have something - I've shot a mail to Matt Johnston @cimota with your details & this community. He might have a bunch of stuff for you or none at all. Apologies for being brief, leaving for Central Asia in the morning!
At 19:56 on April 12, 2011, Jon Lebkowsky said…
I just saw this message you left me on Ning in 2009 - I didn't see it before, sorry for my failure to respond! I promise to be more present.
At 8:35 on March 1, 2012, Anna Harris said…

HI Michel,

Thank you for your welcome, which is very flattering, but not sure on what it is based. Is this the way you welcome all new members?

Would welcome an explanation,

Anna

At 7:32 on March 2, 2012, Anna Harris said…

Hi Michel,

Thanks for your reply. I was hoping for a response, if you have time, to my comment on the Marxism debate, reproduced below.

Quote  – ‘The key is that generalized non-reciprocity cannot be imposed by any top-down force, however benign, but must by necessity mature in the real society as people can gradually move towards it as sufficiency and abundance replace scarcity dynamics.’

One large factor being ignored here is the role of childcare usually provided by the mother, the basis of all non-reciprocal relationships, producing value which is nowhere acknowledged as an economic asset, but without which no society could exist. or regenerate itself. I hesitate to mention the word ‘love’ in this context but without it why would people move towards more generalised non-reciprocity? It is that primary relationship with a carer – not to exclude fathers or others – which is the first experience of sufficiency and abundance, which will set the pattern of receiving and giving, and will enable a deeper connection with and solidarity with humanity as a whole. In that ability to care, engendered by that first primary relationship, care for ourselves and the other, we can discover our deep need to give, to contribute to another’s well-being, which can nourish our own dignity and empowerment. Through that experience we can envisage the maturity described above moving towards the ‘social individualism’ described by Marx and further towards the ‘Communism [that] is the voluntary cooperation among individuals for both social good and for their own pleasure and development.’

This is not a relationship that has to be created. It is our natural relationship to each other and to the world which is distorted by the economic system of markets and money mechanisms, which alienates us from our true selves. It remains to be discovered when that conditioning and those conditions are thrown off. Whether we have to go through a transition period will depend more, in my opinion, on how quickly we recognise the motivating role of Love and the priority of the mother/carer/child relationship.
Anna

At 3:30 on March 6, 2012, Lucas Nebert said…

Thanks Michel. I haven't written anything up yet but I will soon. I find a lot of truth in your thesis on p2p production, and p2p agriculture is my passion. To build a true commons we must build the soil.

At 2:43 on March 7, 2012, Michel Bauwens said…

can't wait Lucas!

At 16:48 on January 23, 2013, Pascal Houba said…

En effet. Je t'ai ajouté comme ami sur facebook comme je suis plus souvent connecté que sur P2Pf.

At 18:15 on May 1, 2013, Vladimir Nickolayevich Tretyakov said…

Thanks Michel for your friendly proposal. I like your activity within P2P community and I'd like it to support i any way. Especially ou notres  contacts (courtes) seront en francais. J'aime beaucoup ce language mais alas sans grande mutualite ;-)

A propos de ma question: comment je peut etre enregistre? 

At 18:18 on May 1, 2013, Vladimir Nickolayevich Tretyakov said…

Proving my lips of pen:
Sorry, it should be: ".. and I'd like to support it in any way"

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