FWD: current capitalism containing a germ form of a new society?

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> <ZITAT>
> First of all we recognize the difference between Marx' views and the views 
> of the different Marxist currents. Although different brands of Marxism 
have 
> distorted Marx' thought to the point where it has become unrecognizable, I 
> tend to think that only Marx' analysis gives us the chance to understand 
what 
> is going on today. The decline of the labor society we are all witnessing 
in 
> various ways cannot be understood without that analysis. The Krisis group 
> [http://www.krisis.org] has offered a contemporary reading of Marx, 
> claiming that capitalism is in decay because the basic movement of making 
> money from labor works less and less. This doesn't mean that capitalism 
> must end soon, but it won't ever be able to hold its old promises of wealth 
> for all. A number of people on the Oekonux mailing list have built upon the 
> Krisis theories and carried them onto new ground. On the list among other 
> things we try to interpret Marx in the context of Free Software. It's very 
> interesting that much of what Marx said about the final development of 
> capitalism can be seen in Free Software. In a sense, we try to re-think 
Marx 
> from a contemporary perspective, and interpret current capitalism as 
> containing a germ form of a new society. 
> </ZITAT>
> 
> aus
> http://news.openflows.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/08/0538232&mode
> =thread
  kwp
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