Dear Justin
Was Karl Marx an idealist or a materialist? I'm perfectly happy to leave
that for you and others to decide. Because I'm a pragmatist and my ideas
are pragmatist and the rest is just wordplay to me. I'm interested in
factual truth and in whether something works or does not work. I'm
Dear nettime list -
a little late to the party (and it seems the conversation has already
moved on …) i do like to pose some observations/ questions that this
thread has triggered for me — although i must admit that i have not read
marx (nor rosseau) myself. that’s probably me just being lazy as
Coming in late to this thread but the anti-identity current that's growing
more and more prevalent on the left lately seems to be somewhat in
opposition to contrary to materialism. To say that "class is class and only
class has universal validity" strikes me as pretty idealist, not
materialist.
On 11/1/18 10:56 AM, mp wrote:
James Scott writes about peasant uprising that one of the first points
of attacks commonly are the offices of documentation/paper holding
bureaucracies: there where power is preserved and managed. That, today,
would be server farms, I suppose.
So, should we
Don’t we have to think about more sustainable ways to produce hardware? There’s
– of course – Heidegger viewing technology as the destruction of nature. Even
if we wanted, could we stop using and producing hardware?
I think it’s hard to condemn free software because of *evil* hardware. We
On Wednesday, October 31, 2018 4:43:20 PM CET, Francis Hunger wrote:
Hi everybody,
I was a bit disappointed, that this kind of 'weak' Stallman interview
was published in the New Left Review. 'Weak' insofar as I can't see much
'leftist' in it.
Free Software is barely a political concept as it
On 01/11/2018 08:00, Carsten Agger wrote:
> So yes: Software should be available free of charge - and, on the other
> hand, those who can should take part in its funding, because with no
> funding it won't happen.
Software can only be used if you have access to hardware.
Hardware can - at
On 11/1/18 7:02 AM, Brian Holmes wrote:
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 5:17 PM Frederick Noronha
mailto:fredericknoro...@gmail.com>> wrote:
The 'freedom to afford software' should be actually included as
the Fifth Freedom of the Free Software Campaign worldwide. As
things stand, the
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 5:17 PM Frederick Noronha <
fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The 'freedom to afford software' should be actually included as the Fifth
> Freedom of the Free Software Campaign worldwide. As things stand, the
> outrageous pricing of software (notwithstanding the FOSS
