> re your paragraph below, this is of course also the remit and aim of the p2p > foundation,
> if we can help your endeavours in any way ...
Thanks much, Michel. A big part of my effort, though, is just promoting the ideas I pick up here and on P2P Research, and circulating them among conventional libertarians and members of the
conventional "progressive" Left who might never have heard of them. Most of what I do is just synthesizing and promoting ideas I get from other people--and this is where I get them.
It's amazing how much of the conventional Left is technophobic, and
fails to see technology's liberatory potential from corporate authoritarianism. I just read Reason's interview with Steward Brand, where he recounted his role forty years ago in promoting technology among the counterculture as a force for liberation and the DIY ethos,
where it was previously seen mainly as a force for control.