Digital Capitalism and Digital Marxism

Analyzing capitalism in a Marxist sense can have its advantages for actually using capitalism. It can give one a greater understanding of the concept of capitalism to use it to ones advantage (even though Marxism would state that this is a bad thing). There are a few ways this can be done through the digital media.

One would be breaking capitalism down in a Marxist sense for free use of services on the internet. This would be freemium. Making facebook free (which it is now) and then excluding certain things you can do on facebook and making the public having to pay or subscribe to it on top of also adding new features on facebook that you would have to pay for. Marxism would say that facebook should be all free but freemium could work on facebook and one could see profits.

There is also the criticism of digital capitalism from Marxism of turning workers into full-time slaves. Someone who works on computers all day long then goes home to use the same kinds of digital services on the computer take away the power of what the worker could want to do in their spare time. Such as doing nothing. As was stated in the lecture there is now a stigma on doing nothing as it is seen as unproductive. So Marxism would state that digital capitalism has brainwashed the public into always having to do something and not taking the time to be free and relax.

To the point of this now. If one could use freemium on some internet site and make profits to start a company and they have the knowledge of what capitalism does to society, this can be expressed by the very person(s) who used capitalism to build an authority. They could say that there shouldn't be a stigma on doing nothing and that people should be free to do nothing if they want in there spear time and also simply just highlight issues sounding digital capitalism through the perspectives of Marxism. From this these two theories are still in some kind of a vicious cycle in this digital age.