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What can Karl Marx learn today? This question now often arises on 200 anniversary of philosopher and social orist. The author and media scientist Tilman Baumgärtel tries to answer m in relation to Internet.
“The bourgeoisie has in its barely hundertjährigenKlassenherrschaft more massive and colossal production forces geschaffenals all past generations toger. Subjugation of natural forces, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam shipping, railways, electric telegraph, reclamation of entire world parts, navigability of rivers, whole populations stamped out of ground – which Earlier century suspected that such production forces were slumbering in lap of dergesellschaftlichen work. “
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Wait a minute – did two people write that DerBourgeoisie wanted to snatch power from revolution?
Yes, it is in Communist Manifesto of Karl Marxund Friedrich Engels of 1848, which is regarded as literary starting point of Marxism.
The quote also shows: Marx, whose 200 birthday is Nungefeiert, was a social revolutionary, but not a machine striker. DieTechnologie of his time compelled him admiration. It was for Marx zwareinerseits part of means of production that contributed to capitalist exploitation of DerArbeiterklasse. On or hand, he believed that it could also play a decisive role in DerAbschaffung of capitalism. When Manheute reads what Marx geschriebenhat about “means of communication” of his time – to which channels and streets of his language were same, such as newly invented telegraphy – it is possible to draw conclusions as to what Internet would think about today.
Tilman Baumgärtel Tilman Baumgärtel is professor of media studies at Mainz University of Higher education. The Reclam publishing house recently published his book “Texts on ory of Internet”. to author page
He would probably consider internet as a Commons, i.e. as a communal property of all mankind. That in Feudalismusgroße parts of forests and meadows were common property, in which each could collect wood or berries, for Marx was an important historical reference point, to which he has come back again and again. This communitarian ideal would rediscover Marx Wohlheute in collectively created online encyclopedia Wikipedia or with confidentiality programmed open source software like Linux.
Even many services that Google Umsonstanbietet to its users would surely inspire him. Only Google books and Google Scholar, who in exile in London almost daily to BritishLibrary, would have liked as much as corporate goal of cataloguing clear world knowledge. However, as a scharferBeobachter of what we call a business model today, he would also baldauffallen that price of this is constant reconnaissance of users and DassGoogle World Knowledge – Marx speaks of “general Intellect” – Made to SeinerProfitquelle Has. The quasi-monopoly that company has in many areas would certainly be displeased. He would probably recommend DieEnteignung and nationalization of company and or monopolies WieFacebook or YouTube, just as author Jonathan Taplinin has done his book move Fast and break things.
