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James Muldoon has written a book, Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Futures<\/a><\/em>, reviewed here<\/a>, and was invited by the \u201cDifferent Class\u201d programme to join a seminar discussing it. When I first heard of the book, and read reviews I wasn’t impressed. A lot of what he said has been said before however on meeting him I think he has a great control over his material and can present it powerfully. I think he’s stronger on criticising the datenkraken than he is on suggesting alternative governance models and how to get there. He is keener on co-ops than nationalised corporations and we can understand why. I think that somewhere in here, there is a need to change company law such that the primacy of shareholder value is undermined. Theoreticians have argued for decades that companies serve at least four stakeholders; why should the needs of one have supremacy over the other three. Capitalism and shareholder value\/fiduciary duty may have been appropriate when capital was scarce and the key economic question was how to use it but the world has moved on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certainly, I can see no justification for Uber appropriating the value from its drivers; it should be a co-op of the drivers. In fact, this is an argument that’s been going on for a while. An example is in the music business; there are arguments about how much value should accrue to the fans versus the artists versus the financiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are my notes and links \u2026’<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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‘Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Futures’ by James Muldoon reviewed by Tim Christiaens<\/a><\/blockquote>