The Pirate Party is a great example of what I hope is a continuing trend towards the death of nationalism. PP is a global political party whose candidates have shared values where national borders are essentially irrelevant. We're an increasingly global people and thus far have only shown the power of that in internet lynch mobs and DDOS attacks. It will be interesting to see if other global political parties like the Pirate Party emerge in the next few years.
I was on PPI conference in Prague few months ago and I have to agree
yes, there are internal issues, some of them are purely bureaucratic, some of them are caused by inbalance of (relatively) strong pirate parties in continental Europe and weak rest, some of them are ideological.
But in the end, we are all on the same boat and that's what counts.
Any movement will fracture as it expands to include more people. Is fracturing across subideological lines better than fracturing across geopolitical lines?
Disclaimer: I'm from Spain and we share these values, although we claim too for citizen participation in government through direct/liquid democracy, which is the current difference between some pirate parties and others, but they all tend now to this due PP-DE success.
Also, we keep working together in projects like PP-EU (European Pirate Party), aiming to be present around Europe in the next European elections: http://jay.lu/?p=2184
