[OPE-L] Wertkritik and value form theory

From: Paul Cockshott (clyder@GN.APC.ORG)
Date: Tue Dec 25 2007 - 16:38:34 EST


Michael, would I be right in thinking that Nuss is from the WertKritik school?

I would also be interested in your view of how the German language WertKritik
school relates to the English Language 'Value Form' school?

Quoting Michael Heinrich <m.heinrich@PROKLA.DE>:

> Sabine Nuss presented such a theoretical elaboration in her book
> "Copyright & Copyriot" (in German) - rather critical against the idea
> that communism would start with linux. Papers of her (in German) you can
> find on her website www.nuss.in-berlin.de
> A brief English handout presented at the Socialist Scholars Conference
> in New York is
> 
>
http://wbk.in-berlin.de/wp_nuss/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/digitalproperty_02.pdf
> 
> This paper followed  a debate with Richard Stallmann
> 
> http://wbk.in-berlin.de/wp_nuss/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/stall_1.html
> 
> Michael
> 
> Howard Engelskirchen schrieb:
> 
> > Paul and others,
> >
> > I'd be interested in some theoretical elaboration of this -- why
> > would left wing computer people say so and what would they mean when
> > they say so?  How do they think existing relations of production are
> > transformed?
> >
> > howard
> >
> > At 05:25 PM 12/22/2007, you wrote:
> >
> >> I think what Gates says here is what many left wing computer people
> >> would also say.
> >>
> >> Paul Cockshott
> >> Dept of Computing Science
> >> University of Glasgow
> >> +44 141 330 3125
> >> www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: OPE-L on behalf of glevy@PRATT.EDU
> >> Sent: Sat 22/12/2007 5:34 PM
> >> To: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU
> >> Subject: [OPE-L] OpenSource: a "new source of communism"
> >>
> >> A short article from the English
> >> online version of
> >> _L'Humanite'_,
> >> published by the PCF, in which
> >> Bill Gates
> >> is quoted as saying
> >> that Open Source is a "new
> >> source of communism":
> >>
> >>  <http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article319.html>
> >>
> >>
> >> The article, though, doesn't
> >> identify the
> >> original source for
> >> the quote.
> >>
> >> In solidarity, Jerry
> >
> >
> 


Paul Cockshott

www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc
reality.gn.apc.org

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