Hacking Capitalism

by Johan Söderberg

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light of the recent achievements of the hacker movement. This book is the first to examine a different kind of political activism that consists in the development of technology from below.

Genres: Sociology, Nonfiction

252 pages, Hardcover

First published November 13, 2007

Reviews

[ShawnLeeZX · Rating 3 out of 5]

Marxism does not feel generalizable to hacking. The labor and capital should not be the main theme in the world dominant by hacking. Knowledge and philosophy may count more.