wikileak's significance in class struggle?

[Trigonometry]

wikileak's significance in class struggle?
what do you think? the huge hunt against wikileaks and Assange is blatant war by the ruling class?

[Tablo]

It is pretty blatant, but I don't think people will really connect the dots.

[synthesis]

It is a blatant act of suppression by the ruling class, but I'm not as sure about Wikileaks' role in class struggle. As noted in a different thread, Assange said that "WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical" while describing his affinity for "American libertarianism, market libertarianism."

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...I believe [Assange] actually called himself a "figurehead" at one point, and in any case I don't think his political ideology is particularly relevant.

I do find his comment about Wikileaks being "designed to make capitalism more free and ethical" to be very interesting, however. It puts the project in a different perspective for me.

"If only powerful institutions were forced to be totally transparent," says the liberal, "we could dispense with socialism entirely. We can force them to be ethical!"

But even if total transparency in capitalism was a feasible goal, which it isn't, powerful institutions would still be powerful. Transparency does not lead to ethical behavior - only to further instruments of opaqueness.

I certainly don't think that Wikileaks is some sort of intelligence conspiracy, and furthermore I do think their efforts will have positive repercussions. But by acting as though they have undermined our illusions of transparency and equilibrium, it paradoxically seems inevitable that those illusions will simply become even more entrenched as the project runs its course.

I think Wikileaks can serve to illuminate the true nature of class society, but only if we are able to frame it as such. Its efforts can play into many different narratives and to suggest that they will automatically bolster class struggle seems overly optimistic, to say the least.