From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Sat Sep 11 1999 - 15:58:30 MDT
In a message dated 99-09-10 16:03:20 EDT, bradbury@www.aeiveos.com (Robert J.
Bradbury) wrote:
> Slashdot.org has a story pointing to the Salon discussion of
> Richard Barbrook's Cybercommunist Manifesto.
>
> URLs:
> http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/09/10/cybercommunism/index.html
> http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199909/msg00046.html
> http://slashdot.org/articles/99/09/10/157243.shtml
>
> This is relevant for people to look at because it considers
> the possibility that open-source "gift" economy may transcend
> capitalism. Even if it isn't accurate now, it may have the
> right idea when the NanoSantas arrive.
I'm no economist (and I'm certainly no communist), but this IS interesting.
Of course, this is by the same guy who seemed to pretty seriously
misapprehend the nature of extropians in his book, "The California Ideology",
and his whole approach is hopelessly mired in hide-bound marxist theory.
I'll confess that the whole "free software movement" has sometimes given me
the willies, but of course, that's probably just my "class consciousness"
talking. On the other hand, I don't see anything at all inconsistent with
the basic workings of an anarcho-capitalist net economy in the creation of
"surplus value" that gets "given away". The image of "NanoSantas" is
probably intended to be a little absurd, because, ultimately there has to be
some incentive to create new value. But I DO see a lot of "free" value being
created on the net . . . .
Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<gburch@lockeliddell.com>
Attorney ::: Vice President, Extropy Institute ::: Wilderness Guide
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"Civilization is protest against nature;
progress requires us to take control of evolution."
-- Thomas Huxley
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