The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online(wired.com)

The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online

http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_newsocialism?currentPage=all

3 comments

The author redefines the word, 'Socialism', to mean something entirely different than any of the generally accepted meanings.

In the marketplace for ideas, just as in the market for used cars, this is called 'bait and switch'.

cturner17 anni fa

This is hacker news, hardly the place you expect to find links to wired! Particularly articles that play as hard and fast with the language as this one. The whole article rests on the loose language of the subject line. If the headline had been "communities work together to achieve things online just as they do offline" there wouldn't have been a story. And - indeed - there isn't.

neilc17 anni fa

Exactly. I think there's an interesting story here, but calling it "socialism" is just shameless linkbait.

vorador17 anni fa

This is more anarchism than socialism.

javert17 anni fa

No. Online collaboration and the open source movement are not political ideologies. They are not anarchism, socialism, communism, or anything else like that.

[deleted]17 anni fa