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• The economic, cultural and political life of society will no longer be ruled by the wealthy or subordinate to the needs of corporate profits. Sources of bourgeois wealth will be confiscated. All attempts by those with any remaining form of wealth or privilege--to leverage their resources and seize control of society--will be smashed.
• Workers will have the democratic right to and form under conditions of political transparency.

Reviews of all important articles in the
Inclusion of from participating
(ie: competition and cooperation) between various progressive trends
open to contributions from all No copyright--everything is public domain
Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of from the standpoint of working class interests
what to read (and what to ignore) on the basis of

A communist movement worthy of the name
can only organize itself around
a
that is fit for the modern world.
But before this can happen
charlatanism and denial must be smashed.

How web-accessible databases
will assist the self-organization of
the anti-revisionist communist movement

will suppress the bourgeoisiesuppressing the working class

[Beam me up, Scotty]

fits Leninism as a bullet does a rifle
in what turns out to be
the for the bourgeoisie.

the internet ?

How the communications revolution will
today
and prove to be a in workers' hands
after the overthrow of the capitalist system.

-- "Popular" version --

Most "polemical" sectionssurgically removed !
theory
featuring brief sketches of the organization
of political, cultural and economic life
in a future where all authority flowsfrom that have been distributed universally
and are part of everyone's rather than which are to the individual
and which use one or another form of

[Beam me up, Scotty]

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we can help to lay the foundation
for a communist "trend of trends"
with the ability to from our ranks,
over a vast audience,
in their millions
and to ignite a fire
that cannot be extinguished.
holds promise to completely the at present consisting predominantly ofsquabbling ,craven and thejust-plain .In place of this will likely emerge aof communist organizations which will bothwith one anotherat levels which at present may seem inconceivable.

Riding the crest of the wave
of the communications revolution,
we are going to bring
(as a battle of ideas, as a struggle for consciousness)
to the masses, as a vehicle for their aspirations

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The bourgeoisie (and its apologists and flunkies)
seek to so that
they can control the ability of the proletariat
to think and reason politically.
(as an instrument of consciousness)
is both a and an
in the sphere of .
The of key terms are themselves objects
of struggle and represent .
Here are definitions.

ruled by a group of wealthy and powerful thugs--and that a would not be so afraid of the free flow of information.
The question is to the proletarian revolution because a clear and unifying goal of a can never emerge to mobilize millions--until a clear distinction can be made in the popular consciousness between workers' rule and a police state.

[Beam me up, Scotty]

Humanity stands at the dawn
of the greatest communications revolution in history.
The development of a global digital communications infrastructure
promises, as decade rolls after decade, to
,
setting the stage for
an eventual of .

.
It would be highly experimental and would grow as it learns what it is doing,
eventually with the capitalist economy
and it
as a developing chick does the white of an egg.

[Beam me up, Scotty]

Report byyour correspondent,

Unfortunately it has been a long time since I have made more than minor updates to this site.The pressure of other politicalwork has made it necessary that I prioritize my tasks.
that I run,my and my work with. You are welcome to check this index out at

(sent out a few times a year) send email to
Also, some of my recent activity can be seen at the following sites:

How will economics, politics and culture work
when the working class runs modern society?

-- Ben's posts to various marxism-related lists --
Watch Ben apply the tactics of information war
(characterized by intelligent listening and calm, scientific
argument) to help transform the marxism space into
a powerful weapon against the system of bourgeois rule.

Information refineries for the proletarian century
Now building
the digital nervous system of the working class

Seventeen Theses on the Destiny of the Revolution in
Communications and the Concept of Workers' Rule

Organizing opposition to the current
and future imperialist wars

completed
It took a lot more work than I thought it would--but the entire cyberLeninism site has now been transfered to its new home. In the process, I overhauled every single page. I cleaned up all the dead links. I also redesigned many of the pages to take advantage of the fact that hardly anyone is still using Netscape 2.0 (which can't handle colored tables).
The new server is faster and will also allow me to use automation in the form of "Active Server Pages".
Chapter 8 is the first chapter dealing with the period during which Lenin was in power.Current plan is to release the chapters a month apart. Will this be realistic? (There was a 10 month gap between chapters 7 and 8.) All released chapters are now posted at: together with most of the good discussion (and some of the bad discussion). Instructions for posting your own comments or getting on the "Party of the Future" email mailing list are on that page. Check it out.
You can now link to this site using a cool, animated button. All you need to do is include the following in your html code:
If youreally like the button, you can make it display at twice normal size by using width=176 and height=62 in the code above. Then it will look like this:
And the links page is still drastically overdue for an overhaul. The good news, however, is that nearly every single dead link has been removed.
The forum and the links page will be functional, better than ever, as part of the site automation.
At leastI hope the delay is slight. It took me much longer than I thought to transfer this site to Leninism.org and overhaul every page. Automation will begin (hopefully) very soon now. Does "soon" mean days or months? I hope it means days.
I've got a lot of work to do tonite before I go to sleep, so I'll sign off here. Best wishes to all the readers who give me encouragement!

Many readers are upset or disappointed that the forum has been frozen for more than 10 months. Here is one letter:
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 1997 12:45 PM> Dear ben,>> Hi, i'm a big fan of your cyberLeninism page > but I'm becoming concerned with the apparent > inactivity in the site.  When do you plan to > unfreeze your forum if ever and where can I > get involved in an on-line communist> discussion until then?
Here is the good, the bad and the ugly:
The good news is that I plan to "automate" my site--so that the forum will operate without my having to hand-code the e-mail I receive into html,fix all the dumb mistakes that I make and then FTP everything up to my ISP.
The bad news is that before I can start this task--I must finish at least the theoretical section of my series. Originally intended as a weekend project--it will likely take me thru the end of the year.I have written 7 chapters so far and am currently working on the chapterswhich sum up the period in which Lenin was in power.I have only had time to post the first 3 chapters--but will post everything as soon as I have a chance.
The best forums that I know of for Marxist-related discussion--are in the maintained by the Spoon Collective.These are e-mail based discussion lists.The best of these Spoon forums is.I am not necessarily recommending these sites--because few of the participantsare serious about actually doing anything--and the quality of the discussionis very uneven--with occasional brilliance side-by-side with unbelievable stupidity.But until there are Marxist forums of higher caliber--this is the best of which I am aware.
PS: If you find a forum--
Ben Seattle ----//-// 14.Nov.97

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