If one looks at what appear to be Events - the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Battle of Seattle, the rise of new religions, scientific breakthroughs and so on - they very often turn out to be simply the point at which a growing force bursts the bounds of an outer frame within which it has been expanding for a very long time, the end- or mid-point of a cumulative process of rupture irreducible to any single point. We need to remember, however, that the symptomatic status of certain groups is a feature of how the dominant system labels them, not of their inherent logics.

That is, we need not just “resources” as things to extract, but the processes that reproduce these resources, because we have also to eat and drink and dress tomorrow and for generations to come. Finally there is the question of the overall value system that is able to articulate use/access and define the whats and hows of control, the value system that gives a particular form of property and ownership life and sustenance. Massimo de Angelis report on the Yasuni’s struggle against petroleum extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon region, based and inspired by their “Mother Earth” related deity Pochamama, clearly discusses the same links we discuss in our section on neotraditional economics, and why these linkages between pre-industrial and post-industrial thinking and practices are important, see here for details.

Abstract “Since the direct production process is the one that defines distribution, the single most important innate advantage of P2P production is that it ensures, on a long term and on a stable basis, a fairer and more equal distribution of wealth. P2P production (or just peer production) overthrows the established notion of economic thinking that humans tackle their production processes either as employees, following the orders of their superiors, or as individual producers in markets. This article by George Papanikolaou appeared in a special issue of the Greek bi-lingual Re-Public magazine, Issue on P2P Energy, 2009