Source: Michel Bauwens – Wikipedia
“In March 2021, numerous former participants within the P2P Forum formally dissociated themselves in opposition to Bauwens’ explicit reactionary perspective.[6] In May 2021, Bauwens allegedly removed several signatories of the disassociation statement from the P2P Foundation wiki. Since it is a community-maintained wiki, this raised further controversy.[7] Two weeks later, Bauwens also edited the P2PF wiki article of P2P Lab (where several signatories belonged) diminishing its role. The wiki entries have been restored by other wiki editors.[7]“
The trouble with Mr Bauwens
Letter of Dissociation
Baranoff, Zvi (March 2021). “Letter of Dissociation”. p2p-left.gitlab.io. P2P Left. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
https://p2p-left.gitlab.io/statement/
“In recent years the P2P Foundation has become the dominion of a single man: its founder Michel Bauwens. Despite its stated commitment to the “commons”, under Bauwens’ direction the P2P Foundation has increasingly come to represent an understanding of the commons as a place of white privilege and punitive male fragility.
Over the last few years, despite concern from long-standing members and close associates, Bauwens has transformed the P2P Facebook and P2P Foundation Wiki pages into what many of us perceive to be a pulpit for reactionary and conservative politics. This is done to the extent that members who identify as and with women, people of colour and the LGBT community have felt unheard, demeaned, disparaged and unsafe.
Bauwens’ posts and curation in the P2P Foundation’s Facebook group have increasingly promoted anti-left, anti-feminist, anti-justice “Intellectual Dark Web” and even alt-right videos and talk pieces.* This has been extended to include offshoots like the P2P Research Clusters and P2P Politics and Policy groups. Right-wing tropes are commonly found in the posts Bauwens curated in recent years, including: the claim that anti-racists and feminists promote “reverse racism” and “misandry”, that Black Lives Matter is a “neo racialist” movement seeking societal domination, that white privilege theory oppresses whites because of innate characteristics, that the transgender rights movement is “anti-woman”, and that social justice movements seek “inverse status hierarchies” or “reverse hierarchies of domination” in which white males are permanently at the bottom.”
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“A small selection of the overall amassing of evidence collated is presented in this Appendix. As screenshots have been removed from the original context and may be misconstrued or misrepresented, explanatory text is provided and the permalink is given to the original post. Other group members’ identities have been anonymized”
Alex Pazaitis
Alex Pazaitis is core member of the P2P Lab and researcher at Tallinn University of Technology.
https://alex-pazaitis.medium.com/think-not-like-a-commoner-7e8077b474a6