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Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement
Synopsis:
The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light of the recent achievements of the hacker movement. This book is the first to examine a different kind of political activism that consists in the development of technology from below.
(Source: ghoulmann)
Inside a Chinese Communist Party school via leftliberty
China’s ruling Communist Party’s 80 million members attend special schools to learn party ideology at facilities that serve as a training ground for the next generation of Chinese leaders.
And defying stereotypes, it appears that one of the freest places in China is at the heart of the Communist Party.
The schools offer a safe space for officials to throw out ideas, talk about sensitive issues, and try to come up with solutions to some of the country’s problems.
Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan reports from Beijing.
(Source: aljazeera.com)
… Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.
(via azspot)
Some US citizens barter their way to health.
Saudi Arabia has always had a fear of encirclement, whether with Communism or with Iranian influence,” said Rachel Bronson, an expert on Saudi Arabia at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “Bahrain to me is the tipping point for when this becomes really unsettling.
(via evangotlib)
jhnbrssndn:newleft: “This is why today’s China is so unsettling…what if this strain of authoritarian capitalism proves itself to be more efficient, more profitable, than our liberal capitalism? What if democracy is no longer the necessary and natural accompaniment of economic development, but its impediment?” -Slavoj Žižek
Alexander: Is America much different? Sure we don’t filter our information networks as much, but we’re more similar than most 21st century liberals want to admit. America, a democracy is just as devoted to consumption and military power.
If you’re living in a world where the terms communism and capitalism still matter you are living in the last century. Technology. frees. people. So put your ideas on the internet, make machines (with in software and hardware), grow food, learn the skills that you need to free yourself from outside authority.
If you look at nature you will see capitism at work — with every organism offering a service in a world without waste. If we look at and listen nature, rather than the ideas of dead historians and economists — who lived in a much different reality from us — we’ll begin to see wholistic answers to our collective problems.
Adam Smith won’t save you. Karl Marx won’t save you. Your government won’t save you. You’re company, bank, planet, etc. will not save you. No one owes you anything. It is up to you to use the tools you are given* to make the best out of your lot in life.
Of course we need to recognize that we’re not all given the same tools — and that a society is only as well off as its lowest members, but it is a failure to make up for this gap with money. Instead with have to go a level below and look at the life skills and tools people require for productive lives on Space Ship Earth.
