Netocracy: The new power elite and life after capitalism by Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist, Pearson/Reuters, £17.99, ISBN 1903684293 Reviewed by Mike Holderness
WHAT would Karl Marx have made of the works of 20th-century radical philosopher Gilles Deleuze – or the cultural contagions or “memes” identified by biologist Richard Dawkins? Maybe the old Newtonian rogue would have been baffled into silence. We’d all have copies of Capital as Idea by Friedrich Engels and Emma Goldman on our shelves, rather than Das Kapital. It would probably be rather better than Marx’s great unread work – or Netocracy for that matter.
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