Re: Re: Re: Re: please post and distribute

[Doyle Saylor <djsaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
    Point heard Marta.  This isn't about a blame game, but about bringing up
ableism and making it a visible and understood part of the movement which I
believe you were doing.  I try to make myself heard as not blaming but
trying to expose and understand the structure of ableism in the social
system.  Also your comments about writers in this area is well taken and is
important to make visible the analysis already available as a part of the
Marxist perspective.

    One area I would like to see brought forward in a historical materialist
analysis is in the IT section of the economy.  That is where "universal"
design of communications could have a very important impact upon disabled
people.  How many people are involved, income, employment, where the
Information Technology can go to technically.  Who this overlaps with, where
the technology comes from (both military research and disability area
research).  How the corporations structure that into the economy.  How to
understand where the capitalists limit information, see the recent report on
the Marxism list
The Deep Web
by Yvan Cloutier

from L'Actualité terminologique/Terminology Update, 34/2 June 2001 (Public
Works and Government Services Canada)

In which it is estimated that the public internet is about 1billion pages,
but invisible or deep webs (intranets out of access to the public) contain
500 billions pages.  Therefore what sort of impact it would have on any part
of the working class to not have access to large parts of knowledge
production.  What it means to restrict knowledge production in terms of
disability rights.  Asking this question of course affects the whole class
because the deepest parts of oppression are concerning disabled people.  At
the same time as a universal system must include the disabled.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor