Kommunikatív kapitalizmus és osztályharc
Communicative Capitalism and Class Struggle

Summary/Abstract: The following article argues that most protests of the last decade from Occupy to the Arab Spring and various workers’ strikes make sense as class struggle - as the political struggle of a knowledge class. I am using the term knowledge class very broadly to designate those whose communicative activities generate value that is expropriated from them. To describe this process, I’m using the term communicative capitalism. It refers to the form of late capitalism in which values heralded as central to democracy materialize in networked communications technologies. In short, this means that capitalism has subsumed communication such that communication does not provide a critical outside anymore. Communication serves capital and because of this, we have to think through both our understanding of the system itself and the movements that organize against it.

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