摘要
最近,政治经济学家给互联网描绘了一幅相当负面的图像,称它是一种以高级形式推销免费情感劳动的场所。他们谴责Facebook和其他社交网站用户的"商品化"。本文从对马克思的另一种解读出发,挑战了这些对互联网的批评。这一批判建构主义解读是对来自马克思的四条方法论原则的普遍推广。马克思将这四条原则应用于工厂——他那个时代技术中介的主要场所。如今,技术已经成为更大范围的各种不同社会关系的中介。因此,这些原则必须被推广,以覆盖整个社会层面。
Recently, political economists have drawn a very negative picture of the Internet as the site of ad-vanced forms of exploitation of free affective labor. They denounce the“commodification”of the users of Face-book and other social sites. In this paper I challenge these critiques of the Internet from the standpoint of a differ-ent interpretation of Marx. This critical constructivist interpretation generalizes from four methodological princi-ples found in Marx. Marx applied these principles to the factory, the main site of technological mediation in his day. Now that technology mediates a much wider variety of social relation, these principles must be generalized to cover the whole surface of society.
