Technology and socialism, continued

by admin | June 16, 2009 4:47 pm

Following up on Kevin Kelly’s Wired piece on digital socialism[1], Creative Commons[2] guru Lawrence Lessig[3] worries that use of the “S” word will give the open source nerds a bad rap[4] from the foaming, freakily hard right of American politics.

Fortunately American history has many examples of socialists who I feel proud to share my political philosophy with[5].

Endnotes:
  1. Wired piece on digital socialism: http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_newsocialism?currentPage=all
  2. Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/
  3. Lawrence Lessig: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig
  4. that use of the “S” word will give the open source nerds a bad rap: http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/05/on_socialism_round_ii.html
  5. socialists who I feel proud to share my political philosophy with: http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1918/court.htm
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