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| − | '''The Manifesto of the Telekommunisten Network'''
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| − | ''Forked from text extracted from Section 2 of The Manifesto of the Communist Party. Marx/Engels 1848.''
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| − | The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position
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| − | of ruling class to develop a network of enterprises where people produce for social
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| − | value and share as equals, and to build and expand the economic size of these enterprises
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| − | to raise the organized proletariat to the position of being the dominant economic
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| − | class. Only when workers control their own production can we win the battle of democracy.
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| − | The proletariat will use its political supremacy expanding economic power to wrest,
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| − | by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise decentralise all instruments of
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| − | production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class;
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| − | into a common stock directly in the hands of those whose production depends on it and
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| − | to thereby increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.
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| − | Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads
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| − | structuring our enterprises on the rights of property, and on the conditions of
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| − | bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient
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| − | and untenable, and contrary to our ends, but which, in the course of the movement,
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| − | outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are
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| − | unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production.
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| − | These measures will, of course, be different in different countries communities.
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| − | Nevertheless, in most advanced countries communities,the following will be pretty generally
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| − | 1. Abolition Mutualization of property in land all instruments of production and application
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| − | of all rents of land to public mutual purposes.
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| − | 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. Establishment of a guaranteed income
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| − | in the form of a dividend paid to each member of the community equal in amount to
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| − | their per-capita share of all mutually collected rent.
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| − | 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. The right to membership of all who contribute
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| − | their labor, and awarding of membership only by contribution of labor, not by inheritance,
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| − | purchase or transfer of any kind.
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| − | 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. A binding agreement with
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| − | all member enterprises to forgo all private ownership of their own productive assets,
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| − | and instead take possession of what they need by renting it from the mutual common
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| − | 5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with
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| − | State capital and an exclusive monopoly. Establishment of a mutual bond market,
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| − | where bonds are sold at auction for the purpose of building the common stock of productive
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| − | assets.
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| − | 6. Centralisation ofthe means of communication and transportin the hands ofthe State.
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| − | Development of resources that put the means of communication and transport in the
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| − | hands of all members.
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| − | 7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing
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| − | into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance
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| − | with a common plan. Provide to all enterprises the opportunity to acquire
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| − | and extend the available instruments of production to the greatest degree possible.
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| − | 8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
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| − | Equal opportunity of all to participate and produce.
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| − | 9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of allthe
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| − | distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace
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| − | over the country. Abolition of all the distinction between producers and consumers
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| − | and the transformation of relations from market based transactions to generalized
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| − | distribution, where production of social value takes precedent over the production of
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| − | goods for sale.
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| − | 10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor
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| − | in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c. Establish
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| − | knowledge and skill sharing networks and systems of support for all members,
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| − | and provide opportunities to develop skills by contribution to production.
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| − | When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production
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| − | has been concentrated distributed in the hands of a vast associations of spanning the whole
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| − | nation world, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so
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| − | called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat
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| − | during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organise
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| − | itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution self organisation, it makes itself the ruling
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| − | class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along
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| − | with these conditions, have swept away the conditions forthe existence of class antagonisms
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| − | and of classes generally, and willthereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.
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| − | In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have
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| − | an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development
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| − | of all.
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| − | == <small>'''Context'''</small> ==
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| − | The manifesto apperead for the first time in the book ''Telekommunist Manifesto'' (2010) realised by the Institute of Network Cultures (1). The manifesto is derived from the section 2 of the ''Communist Manifesto'' by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published in 1848. The book is composed by different articles from authors like Joanne Richardson y Brian Wyrick, which are been extended and re worked by Dmytri Kleiner, who also added text of his complete authorship (1).
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| − | == <small>'''Authors'''</small> ==
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| − | Dmytri Kleiner is a software developer who works on projects that investigate the political economy of the Internet and the ideals of self-organization of workers' production as a form of class struggle (1). He is also the founder of the Telekommunist Collective which is responsible for providing telephone and Internet services, likewise, carries out artistic projects that explore how communications technologies generate integrated social relations. Some of these projects are deadSwamp (2009) and Thimbl (2010) (1). Kleiner, born in the extinct Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, grew up in Toronto and currently lives in Berlin (1).
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| − | == <small>'''References'''</small> ==
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| − | (1) Kleiner, D. (2010). The Telekommunist Manifesto (pp. 1 - 56). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. Recuperado de: http://media.telekommunisten.net/manifesto.pdf
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| − | (2) http://telekommunisten.net/the-telekommunist-manifesto/
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| − | == <small>'''File'''</small> ==
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| − | == <small>'''Links'''</small> ==
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| − | '''First Edition:''' http://telekommunisten.net/the-telekommunist-manifesto/
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| − | '''Wayback Machine:''' https://web.archive.org/web/20180323054756/http://telekommunisten.net/the-telekommunist-manifesto/
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