In my Master’s thesis, I posited that the tragic nature of 20th century socialist experiments was due to the fact that the democratic-socialist ideals of equal political participation, egalitarian wealth distribution, and voluntary labor were simply unattainable at the time. The advent of the Internet, I argued, presents the possibility of global, participatory democracy, and the ability to track everybody’s consumption and production, a necessary task for deciding who gets to produce and consume what. The hard part, of course, is breaking from our selfish, […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: capitalism, civil rights, death, History, politics, science, social justice, socialism, technology