Re: [ox-en] Peer production manifesto?

Hi StefanMn and all,

On 2009-05-24 21:23, Stefan Merten wrote:
> I find Michel's text below interesting - though it needs perhaps a
> lot of improvement.

I am not sure if the flaws can be fixed by "improving". Some parts are 
really good using a nice language, some are acceptable, but some are 
blatantly wrong. I only name them in a short list while knowing at the 
same time, that there is no way to correct them in the next time:
- the idea of divorcing markets from capitalism
- approach of using reformed money
- convergence between individual and collective interests by politics
- partner-state model

Not completely wrong, but problematic and misleading:
- markets as means of managing scarce resources
- assumption of a steady-state economy
- reciprocity and neutrality in exchange (which already exists)
- producing as creation of "value" (instead of utility)

And some more tiny bugs.

> He formulated it for the P2P Research Group. The
> text gave me the idea to try something like a peer production
> manifesto [1]_. What do you think?

I think this could only lead to some result on the road of consensus, 
not by simply expressing the market-affirmative views. A manifesto must 
contain a far reaching vision, not only a simple picture of what we 
already have.

Ciao,
Stefan

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