|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Jim Farmelant
||
|| On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:58:26 +0000 (GMT)
|| "=?iso-8859-1?q?Cian=20O'Connor?=" <cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
|| > --- Hakki Alacakaptan <nucleus at superonline.com>
|| > wrote: >
|| > >
|| > > The "knowledge class" has to be able to pay upwards
|| > > of 50 grand to acquire
|| > > that knowledge and gets stock options in exchange
|| > > for it so there's no
|| > > question of it overthrowing a system it's a
|| > > shareholder of.
|| >
|| > That's not true in Europe (free education and all). A
|| > surprising number of anti-globalisation types are
|| > computer programmers, even in America.
||
|| Hell, Doug's former friend Louis Proyect is a computer
|| programmer. Then again so am I.
||
|| Jim Farmelant
||
There's something about programmers and the money-free hyperspace they inhabit that makes them anticapitalist in a hippie-like way. I'm not dissing that; in fact I'm very much part of it, although I'm not a coder. I think that the more we live in digital virtuality, the better off we will all be, as will the ecosystem. This list that I'm writing to from K's of miles away without paying a cent shows how liberating it is. But that's not enough to posit a "knowledge class". Where's this class that gets its knowledge for free and refuses to cash in on it? Marx didn't cash in on his class privilege either but never attempted to theorize a "bourgeois revolutionary" class.
Hakki