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Re: <nettime> Nathan Schneider: Planet Occupy (Harpers Magazine) |
Keith: > The human economy in a revolutionary moment: political > aspects of the economic crisis . . . Yes -- this is a revolutionary moment! Yes -- this is ALL about the *human economy*! Yes -- this is being *driven* by DIGITAL technology! NO -- this is not something that Karl Marx knew very much about (or Lenin for that matter, since they were both "industrial-era" prophets)! The changes from Marx's BOOK-based (or Lenin's TELEGRAPH-based) political economy are so massive that they would unlikely recognize what is going on -- in particular, what *actually* happens when a culture becomes "post-industrial" (hint: it's not "communism".) Mark Stahlman Brooklyn NY # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org