From: L.J.Connell-AT-sussex.ac.uk (Liam Connell)
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:31:04 BST
Subject: Re: M-I: "post-factory culture"



In terms of non-metropolitan/bourgeouis voices on the net, you might 
try subscribing to the postcolonial list 
Majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu "subscribe postcolonial".  This 
list regularly includes messages from users who would not constitute 
the above catagory and offer oppositional voices.

Liam

On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:18:28 -0500 (CDT) ty reynaldo r wrote:

> From: ty reynaldo r <z969609-AT-oats.farm.niu.edu>
> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:18:28 -0500 (CDT)
> Subject: Re: M-I: "post-factory culture"
> To: Andy Blunden <andy-AT-werple.net.au>
> Cc: Rob Schaap <rws-AT-comserver.canberra.edu.au>,
>      marxism-international-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> 
> 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



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