The global uprising of 2011, from the Arab Spring through the Battle of Fukushima after Nuclear Disaster, Indignant Europe to Occupy Wall Street have three common features: beginning with tenant human dignity and indignation of common people, real democracy in action, and using the power of social networks on the Internet. It opens a new world for emancipatory potential. In particular, participants in Cairo, Madrid and New York begin to occupy squares by the way of encampment, and, instead of listing up demands to existing society, form assemblies of decision-making and working groups with no leaders, or no head quarters. It creates not only new subjectivities, but also three new principles for a new society: open for all, sharing and collaboration, decentralization and autonomy. This new type of principle for cooperation is, of course, the product from the power of social networks on the Internet, for example, open source movement Linux community, which means signs from future. It is said that "Socialism failed, capitalism is bankrupt. What comes next? The answer is communism". Now, we could say: the global occupy movement opens a new beginning of great transition stage from capitalism to communism, where the mode of production is based on the two concepts of "social individual" and "general intellect" (in German, Allgemeine Arbeit) being given by Karl Marx as driving force beyond the capitalist mode of production. The post Cold War notion of "The End of History" means, in fact, a beginning of the end of capitalism as the last class society. In conclusion, the existing antagonism lies everywhere between emerging communist mode of production and old capitalist mode of production.
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