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[...] He suggests that we are on the cusp of an open access revolution that will overcome capitalism, heralding a new mode of production based on the principles championed by the likes of Swartz (whom he does not mention). According to Mason, there is now a massive and irreconcilable contradiction …

Such a reduction of labour to a fulsome economic zero

As the French Marxist Louis Althusser pointed out in his essay on the ideological state apparatuses, this is what makes the ‘interpellation’ process (his name for a particular kind of capitalist indoctrination) so effective

Neoliberalism – the reduction of all social life to the logic of profit-seeking behaviour – ought to have disappeared in 2008, and a form of it certainly did