From the article: “While practically and empirically the
P2P mode of production is still under the sway of capitalism and to a great
extent dependent on it (buying computers and other materials and services from
it and using its infrastructure), its logic radically contradicts that of
capital. I described briefly above major aspects of P2P that accord to Marx’s
understanding of communism. All these aspects contradict the logic of capital.
Here I will show how the logic of P2P profoundly contradicts the capitalist
division of labour, because division of labour is the key component of any mode
of production. Let me emphasize that in P2P we have a distribution of labour
and not a division of labour (Weber, 2004). The P2P modes of cooperation and
the distribution of products make micro (within separate production units) and
macro (among different units) capitalist divisions of labor superfluous.” Read more
