Communism with hi-tech?

[Stalker]

I may be wrong, but do you think serious advancements in technology will change how 'true' communism will happen and be sustained in our society? I mean, communism is heavily focused on industry and production, but what about the internet and such? What would happen there. Seeing as the internet doesn't seriously contribute to society other than communication, storage, and that it's like the biggest library on earth.

Thanks :)

[Remus Bleys]

Are you kidding me? You don't think that Internet communications have been a drastic increase of both the exchange of goods and of culture? That mass storage of knowledge isn't beneficial to instruction? That a massively centralized web of communication cannot help a "planned economy"? The internet is a glorious gain for both capitalism and communism.

[The Idler]

No communism is not focused on industry and production. Communism is about emancipating the working class, including all its members not just those earning a wage.

[tuwix]

I may be wrong, but do you think serious advancements in technology will change how 'true' communism will happen and be sustained in our society? I mean, communism is heavily focused on industry and production, but what about the internet and such? What would happen there. Seeing as the internet doesn't seriously contribute to society other than communication, storage, and that it's like the biggest library on earth.

Thanks :)

Marx and Proudhon as other greatest socialist ideologists were born when internet didn't exist yet. So it's difficult to write something what isn't. They were seeing potential in industry because it was the most modern achievement of their world.

But we can observe that internet is in its majority communist. You don' have to pay for the most of content in internet and people work for that free content for no money. Even supporters of capitalist ideology do so. Even demanding payment for anything in internet is frequently regarded as rude...

[ckaihatsu]

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I'll admit to a creeping optimism when it comes to a technological shortcut that *might* finally relieve many of their objective dependence on participation in the cash economy. This is about as anarchistic as I'll get, but it *could* be technologically feasible in the near future to see the development of inexpensive *personal* tools that allow for the harvesting of water, the growing of food, the generation of adequate amounts of electricity, and so on, that would liberate the average person from major economic necessities. This wouldn't change the overall, objective *class* situation in the least, or relieve us from the ultimate issue of who should be controlling mass production, but it *would* enable more people to liberate themselves from direct wage slavery, freeing up their time to hopefully become more politically conscious and active.




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