Some Marxian themes in the age of information

pp. 39-45

in: J. C. Nyíri, Tradition and individuality, Berlin, Springer, 1992

Abstract

The radical conceptual and social changes related to recent developments in technology – aptly summed up under the term "computer revolution" – give new interest to certain basic tenets of Marx. But these tenets are at the same time moved into a perspective hardly envisaged by Marx himself.