A timely political-economic analysis and critique of the Internet and Internet policy. M -----Original Message----- From: reader-list-bounces@sarai.net [mailto:reader-list-bounces@sarai.net] On Behalf Of A. Mani Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 8:36 AM To: sarai list; pragoti@yahoogroups.com; The Moderates; issuesonline_worldwide@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Reader-list] The Internet's Unholy Marriage to Capitalism <http://monthlyreview.org/2011/03/01/the-internets-unholy-marriage-to-capita lism#en63> The development of social relations and democratic forms, as well as science, culture, etc., are all communicative. The rise of the Internet as a form of free communication, seemingly without limits, thus raises the prospect of new realms of human sociability and enhanced democratic possibilities. Yet, rather than a means of expanding human sociability, the Internet is being turned into the opposite: a new means of alienation. There is nothing natural in this process; at bottom it remains a social choice.