Mckenzie Wark: A Marxist Analysis

Things have changed drastically in the past few decades where the very notion of ‘internet’ is introduced and is simultaneously captured by a class whose interest is to control the channel from where the information flows for the sake of power and domination. It’s not just the case for internet but for platforms as well. For McKenzie Wark, the Marxist theory is not much relevant anymore because the beneficiary class knows other ways of controlling what the people should have access to, by controlling the nozzle of the medium from where the information flows. However Marxist theory can be used as source code but one needs to inject criticism to it in order to endorse a new theory which is what we are talking about, ‘Hacker Manifesto’.
For McKenzie Wark, the dynamics of …show more content…
The factory example is not sufficient to understand the economy in which we live in. In present-day, production is not dependent on means of production, rather it’s dependent on the fair access to information; i.e. we live in a knowledge economy, therefore now the beneficiary class tends to control the channel via which the information flows in order to enjoy the ultimate hegemony.
The class is formed when people become aware and unites against or in favor of any cause. McKenzie Wark regards the medium of flow of knowledge as vectors, and the people who want to control the vectors and share the same interests unite and form a class. Vectoralist class is the beneficiary class that owns the means of production. For vectoralist class, money is not that important and their struggle is not for money but is more importantly for