@cripplingdepression Throughout the history of class struggles people have witnessed and experienced the oppression by ruling class institutions. The ruling class wants all of us to obey their institutions.

When we rely on their institutions for all our activities and survival we are bound to play by their rules. Marx and Engels envisioned a future where workers self-organize the production at national and international level as association or in other words producers and consumer cooperatives. The means of production should be collectively owned by the producers.

Information is both produced and consumed by all of us. We are both producers and consumers. i.e prosumers of information. Shouldn’t all those who participate then collectively own the means of communication?

We should embrace the Peer to Peer sharing and communication mechanisms to realize the ideals of Communist society. This is also why the capitalists are afraid of peer to peer consumer products as well. BitTorrent peer to peer file sharing protocol jeopardized their Intellectual property regime. That is why they Hollywood hunted down The Pirate Bay

I recommend to watch this video on class perspective in communication medium by Dmytri Kleiner who also authored Telekommunist Manifesto

When we speak about the left needs to reinvent itself, it should do so in all aspects. The left cannot compete on the same centralized model of Capitalists. It’s a losing battle.

#Peer2Peer #Commons #WorkingClass