Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:34:17 +0200 (MET DST)
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re: M-I: "post-factory culture"


>The cyberspace, world wide web, internet, email, and what have you speed 
>up the communication process, no doubt.  While the capitalists who 
>produce and market these means may not have Marxist discourse in mind 
>flying around the world attacking the world capitalist system, it no 
>doubt provides the Gramscian Counter-Hegemonic space.
>
>However,the challenge is to make available these communication networks 
>to the grassroots peasants, workers, women, political prisoners, and 
>indigenous peoples organizations, among others.  The Sun Peoples of the 
>South does not have much voice not only in the mainstream media but also 
>in the alternative progressive or Marxist discourses.
>
>For another, many if not most of those postings in the email and internet 
>come from self-professed progressives in the Northern and Western 
>economies.  But they are mostly petty bourgeois elements.  Not that there 
>is anything wrong with that, especially when they align themselves with 
>the struggling peoples of the world.  However, the challenge is to make 
>these electronic communication media widely accessible to the working 
>people.  We need to hear from the proletariat itself -- not only hear 
>from each other about our do-good views about the working people.
>
>The electronic media are a powerful tool for the dissemination of 
>information.  But the South in the North as well as the South in the 
>South have to be heard first and foremost in the alternative discourses.
>
>Reynaldo Ty
>Philippines

Yes!

Bob Malecki

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