Showing posts with label Marx. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marx. Show all posts

Information technology is going to erode the need for work


Paul Mason: "Information technology is going to erode the need for work"

"If you ever get to a situation, where humanity is stood to the side of the production process, letting machines do the job, you will need for knowledge to become social"
[Marx, by Paul Mason]

"If such [automated] machines ever existed, the difference between master and slave would disapear"
[Aristotle]

"The two sources of truth in modern life (universities and the media) are on the systemic attack by the new thought architects of fascism"

Paul Mason: here

The Collaborative Commons / towards 'the end of History' (?)

"...there lies outside purely private property and government-controlled 'public property' a distinct class of 'inherently public property' which is fully controlled by neither government nor private agents.  [this is] property collectively 'owned' and 'managed' by society at large, with claims independent of and indeed superior to the claims of any purported governmental manager."

Carol Rose, quoted by Jeremy Rifkin in The Zero Marginal Cost Society [pg 189/190]