^^^^ CB: Had to do with both. Twitter and Facebook functioned like Pravda or Iskra, the communication organs of the Bolsheviks. The immiserated masses were organized organic intellectuals with new social media. I bet a lot of the immiserated masses had cell phones, twitter , facebook , too. There's no contradiction between using new social media and the motivation from being in immiseration, poverty, unemployment. There's a WorldWideWeb of Labor. It's the Internationale ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTbashsKic)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskra
Iskra (Russian: Искра) means Spark, was a political newspaper of Russian socialist emigrants established as the official organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. The first edition was published in Stuttgart on December 1, 1900. Other editions were published in Munich, London, and Geneva. Initially it was managed by Vladimir Lenin. In 1903, after the split of the RSDLP, Lenin left the staff (after his initial proposal to reduce the editorial board to three - himself, Martov and Plekhanov - was vehemently opposed),[1] the newspaper was seized by Mensheviks and was published under the control of Plekhanov until 1905. The average circulation was 8,000.
Iskra's motto was "Из искры возгорится пламя" ("From a spark a fire will flare up") -- a line from the reply [1] Vladimir Odoevsky wrote to the poem [2] by Pushkin addressed to the anti-tsar Dekabrists imprisoned in Siberia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda
Pravda (Russian: Правда, "Truth", was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party and Communist Party between 1912 and 1991.