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| 2015-07-27 |
| Mighty Daniel Greenfield steps to the plate and slugs yet another one out of the park in this fisking... Paul Mason, a former music teacher and Trotskyist, would like to explain to you that capitalism is dying because of computers. Mason, understands economics and computers about as well as you expect a former music teacher to, but since someone at some point made him a respected journalist in the UK, he has many Guardian thoughts he would like to share on the coming post-capitalist world in which we'll all live in computer communes trading labor... because that hasn't been tried before. "As with the end of feudalism 500 years ago, capitalism’s replacement by postcapitalism will be accelerated by external shocks and shaped by the emergence of a new kind of human being. And it has started." A new kind of human being! Adding 'post' to a term should set off nonsense alarms. Following that up by promising a new kind of human being gives off a nonsense klaxon. So what is post-capitalism? Wikipedia, of course, the model for everyone promising a new internet age since 2001. More at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 Somehow"the emergence of a new kind of human being" ends up resulting in a lot of human beings of any type getting killed. |
| Posted by: Fred 2015-07-27 11:32 |
| #5 Mason might just as well just sing the Internationale instead of writing the column |
| Posted by: lord garth 2015-07-27 07:46 |
| #4 The west is increasingly rentierist, not capitalist (and thius getting poorer). |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-07-27 06:18 |
| #3 let me guess... the new human being will be Dang! I was going to guess the New Soviet Man. But that was last time this drivel was peddled on an Internationale scale, wasn't it? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-07-27 03:05 |
| #2 Tell it to Bill Gates. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-07-27 02:56 |
| #1 let me guess... the new human being will be internationalist accepting of unlimited numbers of refugees everywhere neutral atheist however willing to tolerate sharia if those unlimited refugees wish to marry 10-year-olds, keep slaves or kill apostates. anti-racist (translation: anti-anything that supports the old idea of a nation state with borders and a rule of law) pro-environment (translation: anti-capitalist, anti-oil and coal, pro-solar panel and wind turbine manufacture in China with no environmental safeguards) |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-07-27 00:20 |