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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]