User:Laurier Rochon/notes/kleiner workshop
Dmytri Kleiner
- Telekommunisten.net
- free systems vs capitalism
- language of political economy
- relations and interconnections
- both economies and networks are composed of relations
- relations in network define -> topology
- relations in an economy define -> mode of production
- star vs mesh network
- communism vs capitalism
- capitalists love star networks | they hate mesh networks
- the internet was not created by capitalists -> universities, NGOs, hobbyists and the military
- capitalists created online services -> client-server systems, that rely on star networks
- and then stuff like email, usenet, IRC, etc. which depends on mesh topology
- communism loves a mesh network
- eash ISP earns income independantly by being part of a common platform not owned by anyone
1
- capitalists were not happy about the internet
- they just bought everything
- dot com boom
2
- communism must be driven from the network
- web 2.0
- the web is a client-server platform
- criminalization of P2P
- the core innovation of the internet was P2P
- it is contraband. used by thieves and pirates
- being engineered out of the internet
- venture capitalism
- offering money against the future value of what they create
- capital will not fund P2P
- capitalism requires enclosure and kickbacks, it requires a star topology
1.anti-copyright
- copyright came at the same time as capitalism, a component of Bourgeois property
2.copyleft: invasion of the bourgeoisie
- the right of the consumer to become a producer
- free software is wildly successful
- difference between 1 and 2 : 1 is fringe, anti movement - 2 is more about intellectual property, etc.
- 1 is not compatible with capitalism
3. creative commons
- boosted by the free software movement
- the consumer is denied the right to become a producer
- copyfarleft : employs the non-commercial clause used by some creative commons licenses
- but adds a limitation to the clause
- free culture cannot exist without a free society
- cultural workers must be self-organized and work towards a free society in solidarity with all workers