The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
Popularity Report
 |
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
Rank
URL Tag Cloud
Bookmark History
Saved by 30 people (-2 private), first by anonymouse user on 2009-05-24
- Svenouille on 2009-08-28 - Tags no_tag
- Rolandlegrand on 2009-07-23 - Tags culture , internet , politics , collaboration , web2.0 , wired , socialnetworking , social , socialism
- Williamdoust on 2009-07-08 - Tags socialism , collectivist , politics , social , web2.0 , collaboration , WIRED , socialweb
- Grahamperrin on 2009-07-08 - Tags unread , 2009
- Lelapin on 2009-07-04 - Tags no_tag
Public Sticky notes
Bill Gates once derided open source advocates with the worst epithet a capitalist can muster. These folks, he said, were a "new modern-day sort of communists," a malevolent force bent on destroying the monopolistic incentive that helps support the American dream.
Highlighted by benno_hansen
Bill Gates once derided open source advocates with the worst epithet a capitalist can muster. These folks, he said, were a "new modern-day sort of communists," a malevolent force bent on destroying the monopolistic incentive that helps support the American dream. Gates was wrong: Open source zealots are more likely to be libertarians than commie pinkos. Yet there is some truth to his allegation. The frantic global rush to connect everyone to everyone, all the time, is quietly giving rise to a revised version of socialism.
Highlighted by keulenae
Communal aspects of digital culture run deep and wide. Wikipedia is just one remarkable example of an emerging collectivism—and not just Wikipedia but wikiness at large.
Highlighted by fheintz
The frantic global rush to connect everyone to everyone, all the time, is quietly giving rise to a revised version of socialism.
Highlighted by iambreck
Communal aspects of digital culture run deep and wide. Wikipedia is just one remarkable example of an emerging collectivism—and not just Wikipedia but wikiness at large.
Highlighted by lelapin
Wikipedia is just one remarkable example of an emerging collectivism
Highlighted by benno_hansen
Widespread adoption of the share-friendly Creative Commons alternative copyright license and the rise of ubiquitous file-sharing are two more steps in this shift.
Highlighted by benno_hansen
Nearly every day another startup proudly heralds a new way to harness community action. These developments suggest a steady move toward a sort of socialism uniquely tuned for a networked world.
Highlighted by iambreck
While old-school socialism was an arm of the state, digital socialism is socialism without the state. This new brand of socialism currently operates in the realm of culture and economics, rather than government—for now
Highlighted by kreliz
It is not class warfare. It is not anti-American
Highlighted by benno_hansen
digital socialism may be the newest American innovation
Highlighted by iambreck
It is not anti-American; indeed, digital socialism may be the newest American innovation. While old-school socialism was an arm of the state, digital socialism is socialism without the state. This new brand of socialism currently operates in the realm of culture and economics, rather than government—for now.
Highlighted by molly_kearney
digital socialism is socialism without the state. This new brand of socialism currently operates in the realm of culture and economics, rather than government
Highlighted by benno_hansen
While old-school socialism was an arm of the state, digital socialism is socialism without the state. This new brand of socialism currently operates in the realm of culture and economics, rather than government—for now.
Highlighted by iambreck
While old-school socialism was an arm of the state, digital socialism is socialism without the state.
Highlighted by lelapin
The type of communism with which Gates hoped to tar the creators of Linux was born in an era of enforced borders, centralized communications, and top-heavy industrial processes
Highlighted by iguana
Instead of gathering on collective farms, we gather in collective worlds. Instead of state factories, we have desktop factories connected to virtual co-ops. Instead of sharing drill bits, picks, and shovels, we share apps, scripts, and APIs. Instead of faceless politburos, we have faceless meritocracies, where the only thing that matters is getting things done. Instead of national production, we have peer production. Instead of government rations and subsidies, we have a bounty of free goods.
Highlighted by fheintz
the new socialism runs over a borderless Internet, through a tightly integrated global economy. It is designed to heighten individual autonomy and thwart centralization. It is decentralization extreme.
Highlighted by iambreck
Instead of gathering on collective farms, we gather in collective worlds. Instead of state factories, we have desktop factories connected to virtual co-ops. Instead of sharing drill bits, picks, and shovels, we share apps, scripts, and APIs. Instead of faceless politburos, we have faceless meritocracies, where the only thing that matters is getting things done. Instead of national production, we have peer production. Instead of government rations and subsidies, we have a bounty of free goods.
Highlighted by takuya514
Instead of faceless politburos, we have faceless meritocracies, where the only thing that matters is getting things done
Highlighted by iguana
faceless meritocracies
Highlighted by iambreck
I use socialism because technically it is the best word to indicate a range of technologies that rely for their power on social interactions.
Highlighted by kreliz
When masses of people who own the means of production work toward a common goal and share their products in common, when they contribute labor without wages and enjoy the fruits free of charge, it's not unreasonable to call that socialism.
Highlighted by iambreck
When masses of people who own the means of production work toward a common goal and share their products in common, when they contribute labor without wages and enjoy the fruits free of charge, it's not unreasonable to call that socialism.
Highlighted by benno_hansen
But there is one way in which socialism is the wrong word for what is happening: It is not an ideology. It demands no rigid creed. Rather, it is a spectrum of attitudes, techniques, and tools that promote collaboration, sharing, aggregation, coordination, ad hocracy, and a host of other newly enabled types of social cooperation. It is a design frontier and a particularly fertile space for innovation.
Highlighted by fheintz
Rather, it is a spectrum of attitudes, techniques, and tools that promote collaboration, sharing, aggregation, coordination, ad hocracy, and a host of other newly enabled types of social cooperation
Highlighted by iguana
decentralized gift or barter economy where there is no property and where technological architecture defines the political space.
Highlighted by iambreck
But there is one way in which socialism is the wrong word for what is happening: It is not an ideology.
Highlighted by molly_kearney
ad hocracy
Highlighted by iambreck
it is a spectrum of attitudes, techniques, and tools that promote collaboration, sharing, aggregation, coordination, ad hocracy, and a host of other newly enabled types of social cooperation
Highlighted by kreliz
We're not talking about your grandfather's socialism. In fact, there is a long list of past movements this new socialism is not. It is not class warfare. It is not anti-American; indeed, digital socialism may be the newest American innovation. While old-school socialism was an arm of the state, digital socialism is socialism without the state. This new brand of socialism currently operates in the realm of culture and economics, rather than government—for now.
Highlighted by romatrast
Public Comment
on 2009-07-08 by grahamperrin