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The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
- cturner 17y agoThis is hacker news, hardly the place you expect to find links to wired! Particularly articles that play as hard and fast with the language as this one. The whole article rests on the loose language of the subject line. If the headline had been "communities work together to achieve things online just as they do offline" there wouldn't have been a story. And - indeed - there isn't.
- neilc 17y agoExactly. I think there's an interesting story here, but calling it "socialism" is just shameless linkbait.
- vorador 17y agoThis is more anarchism than socialism.
- javert 17y agoNo. Online collaboration and the open source movement are not political ideologies. They are not anarchism, socialism, communism, or anything else like that.
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- JimJinkins 17y agoThe author redefines the word, 'Socialism', to mean something entirely different than any of the generally accepted meanings. In the marketplace for ideas, just as in the market for used cars, this is called 'bait and switch'.