Re: [Pen-l] Marxmail is 10 years old

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
On May 1, 2008, at 7:34 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:

> lthough there will obviously always be a need for “dead tree” media  
> such as books and newspapers, the Internet—which is a Web Press  
> after a fashion—is as geared to our epoch as the Gutenberg press was  
> geared to the epoch of peasant revolts.

Doyle;
Congratulations.  I learned a lot while on the list.

As I've said before I think lists don't promote collaboration.  Social  
software like Wiki's shape documents with multiple editors.  That said  
where is the technology going?

As an organizing tool computing communications has begun a shift in  
how office work is done.  In San Francisco for example working on line  
has spawned groups of virtual employees to create their own communal  
work space.  This sends a poison dart into the heart of shop floor  
concepts of organizing workers.  And opens many questions about the  
meaning of organizing.

For example the belly of the beast concept of the room in a plant  
floor to organize does not challenge control of how space is used for  
the community.

We tend to see in the U.S. a cancerous growth of development of the  
cities that all decry as isolating and wasteful sources of green house  
gas climate change.

If work is detached from location (office and plant based space  
controlled buildings) as computing allows then the model of space and  
location that business has imposed would be open to radical  
organizational methods.  Taking the San Francisco example of communal  
work space controlled by workers, implies that cities, and space are  
open to class based building processes.  This sense of class  
solidarity reshaping the concentrations of workers with a class basis  
of social organization implies a sense of the whole of a community.   
This goes along with globalist methods of climate control.  Ending the  
American suburban sprawl as a class related community alternative is a  
massive shift in how Marxism would organize itself as an options for  
workers.

One avenue in this development is the rapid rise of multi-core  
computing, and the efforts to create research in writing such software  
that really functions in ubiquitous high performance computing  
available for all to work inside of.  Building a whole of working  
class culture needs the right tools and the right collaboration of  
community.  I propose a radical solution of class problems is location  
based organizing of work into a whole class based community  
structure.  No more parties, as much as complete integration of  
everyone into state processes of community function.

This means automating connection by language.  This attacks the  
divisions of society into language groups.  Preserves small languages  
to contribute to the whole connection process.  And establishes a  
global definition of group dynamics that overcomes racist and sexist  
groups dynamics.

I think this sort of manifesto can be implemented in a practice that  
others can be part of so I'm going to evangelize this locally to see  
if this can be launched in friendly social environments and grown into  
a new left wing form of organizing.
thanks,
Doyle saylor_______________________________________________
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