Marxist Theory and Free Software

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Wed Mar 13 17:38:30 PST 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelley" <kwalker2 at gte.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 4:55 PM Subject: Marxist Theory and Free Software


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> ------ Forwarded Message------
>
> From: Mikael Pawlo <mikael at pawlo.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 23:55:45 +0100
> To: dave at farber.net
> Subject: Marxist Theory and Free Software
>
> Dave,
>
>
>
> First Monday published an article by Johan Soderberg, where
Soderberg
> explores free software from a Marxist perspective. Soderberg is
very
> ambitious in his efforts to apply Marxist theory to free
software
> development. It is not easy to sum the article up in a few
sentences, but
> basically Soderberg sees software as a showcase of the
productive force of
> the general intellect, foreseen by Marx 150 years ago. Hence,
production
> becomes more social, thus the hacker movement can - according to
Soderberg
> - challenge capital's domination over technological development.
This is
> interesting food for thought, even if you do not share Soderberg
political
> views on computer program development.
>
> The article:
> http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_3/soderberg/
>
> A related political message furnished by Gnuheter.com:
> http://www.blipp.com/gfx/opensource.png
>
> Stallman on why software should be free:
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html
>
>
> Best Regards
>
> Mikael

=============== Interesting. Yesterday I read a piece on software design and divide and rule by Richard Sharpe in "The Critical Study of Work" that might also be of interest to some folks on the list.

Ian



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