Dear Cde Wonder,
I think the way you have put it is just the kind of response that I would have hoped for, among others. “The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all” is the basic principle in my opinion. That comes from the Communist Manifesto. Everything depends upon the determination of individuals to get their hands on productive things (what I have called products), learn to use them and actually use them. The learning and the using happen at the same time. But also, these revolutionary products are of a social kind. The individual producer is lost without others to work with, communicate with, and share with. This also applies to the free software that you are writing about. In my opinion it is necessary to start with simple, discreet things, or in theoretical terms “abstract” parts of the whole, “concrete” material-social-educational development that is possible for us at this time. We cannot afford to leave all these products in a purely bourgeois-market state of distribution. We have to make qualitative judgements and selections, and active moves as individuals acting socially, so as to expropriate the initiative and lead society towards what it can do for itself. Part of Marx’s legacy (and particularly in “Capital”) is to say that there is no such thing as “the economy” outside and separate from the society of people. The rendering of people into helpless appendages of the market is what capital does. We have to actively oppose that separation, and reclaim our humanity in full, which means not only spiritually and intellectually, but also practically. Just as there are many media in multi-media, so also there are many fronts in the people’s struggle. Long live the most advanced class, the working class! Domza, VC From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wonder Nkosi (PTA) Sent: 09 April 2009 01:46 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Fw: Products for Revolutionaries Comrade Dominc, Thanks for sharing such information with us. I want to know what is the intention to circulate such information. I want to bring to your attention that there is an operating systems and applications that are for free. This include the current most famous Ubuntu by canonical (yes, the one from Mark Shuttleworth), openSUSE (I am using Version 11.0 on my Acer Laptop) and many other operating system. The come bundled with office package (openOffice.org) and other tools that will compete in the market but at no cost. Countries such as Brazil (I mean civil society and government) and companies like IBM are using this types of softwares and operating system. I would love to see us moving towards open society. You may get contact details of mark Shuttleworth to write a paper about the popularity and usage of this type of alternative. By the way, if you know computer programming, you may tweak it to your own liking and also, it is packaged with information on how to do things for yourself and more information is available in the internet. It is 100% virus free unlike Microsoft products. I wish to engaged you further in this matter Wonder 084 299 2965 084 2796 356 Disclaimer This e-mail and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender and delete the original message. Any views or opinion expressed in this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Department of Labour. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses and other destructive codes. While all possible precautions have been taken, the Department accepts no liability whatsoever for loss or damage resulting from the opening of this message or attachments, or the use of the information contained in this message or attachment. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
