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I posted a comment on this page when it was originally published, pointing out that his analogy to political science misses the mark - it's not democratization,

I posted a comment on this page when it was originally published, pointing out that his analogy to political science misses the mark - it's not democratization, it's full on marxism. The means of production (and distribution) have rather suddenly become accessible to the workers. This guy's rant is just another example of someone in the traditional music industry not quite getting it.

hugh3 16y ago
That's not really what Marxism is about. Marxism is about the workers taking over the one big factory from its owners, not about someone inventing an efficient cheap small-scale factory so that all the workers go home and become small businessmen. Democratisation isn't really the right word either, of course. It's more like the Industrial Revolution in reverse -- increasing technology shifts production back from huge centralized facilities to one-man operations.
- radiowave 16y ago
  Reverting to a cottage industry.