digital communism

• digital / communism

• Why Communism Didn’t Work - capitalism because they lost the competition.

• Have competitive conditions changed since then?

• Bread and circuses

  • Digital entertainment is duplicable and therefore can be distributed (e.g. films, rice) inexpensively.

This memo attempts to reassess communism in our time through the concept of “digital communism.”

• While communism has been cited as a reason for its failure to do well in the past because it lost out in competition with capitalism, the author asks the question, “Have the competitive conditions changed?” and examines the new situation in today’s digital age.
• The “bread and circuses” refer to the food and entertainment given to stabilize the people in ancient Rome.
  • The focus here is on the inexpensive and easy mass distribution of “digital entertainment,” and the suggestion seems to be that digitalization may enable the re-enactment of communism in modern society.
• In other words, the development of digital technology is creating a new social structure in which the focus is not on “material competition” but on “sharing information and entertainment,” suggesting the possibility that communitarian elements will once again be the focus of attention in this context.

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