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