Re: [ox-en] Free Software and social movements in South America
Hi Stefan,
this is an interesting proposal. I'll just put a few
unformed thoughts on the table already.
>
> * What kind of connection is there between social
> movements and Free
> Software exactly? What is the nature of this
> connection? How strong
> is it really?
It seems to me that it is about embedded values, and
about prefiguring the new society by present actions.
What I belief is much stronger now, after the
disasters and defeat of 'really existing socialism',
is the lesson that present practice must already
reflect what is wanted, and also that there is a new
Zeitgeist, shared by many, to no longer abide by a
temporal viewpoint where all the good things are seen
to arrive 'after the revolution'. Furthermore, I'm not
sure how strong this is in South America, but it is
present in Europe, is the idea that civil society is
more autonomous, and cannot automatically rely on a
bureaucratic state. So it is very much more nowadays
about create a new life and new networks in the
present, and hereby already creating counter-practices
and counter-institutions.
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