--- excerpt from --- Subject: LL9805060 Ben Seattle POF-8 Lenin's revolution was the pivot of the 20th century Date: Saturday, May 09, 1998 8:28 PM What is in this chapter that may be important ? In section 8d I discuss the attitude of the future dictatorship of the proletariat towards the internet. I say that, in modern, stable countries, the DoP will *not* censor the internet in relation to its use by individuals. Even reactionaries will be able to post their reactionary views on their web sites. What _will_ be restricted will be _commercial_ usage. Put in simpler terms: if some future bourgeois or capitalist (for a considerable period, under the DoP, there will be a certain amount of capitalism present because it will take a while for the working class to learn how to run the entire economy without capitalist methods) wants to post reactionary views--he will be able to do so. What he will _not_ be able to do--is to _hire_ others to do the same for him. His company _will be_ restricted in how it uses the internet and the mass media (which are in the process of merging together). Such a policy may address the concerns that many today have for a future DoP degenerating along the lines of what happened to Lenin's revolution. Access to the internet will make many of the worst forms of political abuse and/or repression extremely difficult. I suggest that discussion of this issue may be a fruitful way to address some of the central contradictions in the current, pitiful state of "communist" theory. Ben Seattle 5.May.98 ----//-// www.Leninism.org [the text of chapter 8 of "How to Build the Party of the Future" can be found at: www.Leninism.org/pof/pof8.htm]