Arwid Lund – författare

Hur kan arbetarrörelsen enas när den politiska splittringen bara ökar? Hur kan en revolution mot förtrycket genomföras utan att den i sin tur blir förtryckande? Den här boken handlar om hur Albert Jensen och den svenska syndikalismen funderade kring de här frågorna under 1900-talets första hälft. "Det är på tiden att Albert Jensen få några rader skrivna om sig. Nu är det gjort, i Arwid Lunds Albert Jensen och revolutionen. Och dessa rader är sannerligen Albert Jensen värd. Hans liv är ett märkligt stycke 1900-talshistoria. Vi får följa tidiga seklets rabulistiska ungsocialism, bildandet av syndikalistiska SAC, 20- och 30-talens sökande efter en frihetlig socialism, tidningen Arbetaren för vilken Jensen var chefredaktör i 20 år, och vi får inte minst ta del av Albert Jensens egen ideologiska utveckling genom alla dessa år. Albert Jensen valde gång på gång omprövningens väg. Medan hans anarkistiska perspektiv på 1910-talet ledde fram mot den revolutionära generalstrejken, kom samma anarkism honom på 1940-talet att betona kampen mot stalinismen och den starka socialdemokratiska staten. Detta gör honom till en mycket spännande politisk tänkare – även hos Lund finns det en sökande hållning och en ärlighet i redovisningen av Albert Jensens väg som gör att anar ett slags släktskap mellan de två." Jonas Fogelqvist, Arena.

“Matching the rigour of the analysis with an extraordinary pedagogical capacity, the authors unveil all the arcana of the ‘openness’ capitalism model and digital labour. Essential for scholars and students across the social and economic sciences.” (Carlo Vercellone, Université de Paris 8, France)“This vital book is an objective and detailed assessment of the private capture of common value, concluding with an in-depth survey of what commons-friendly public authorities could do to defend the new 'common-wealth'.” (Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation, The Netherlands)“An outstanding analysis of how digital capital uses openness as principle of capital accumulation and exploitation.  A must-read for everyone who wants to understand what the internet and digital media are all about.” (Christian Fuchs, University of Westminster, UK)This book tackles the concept of openness (as in open source software, open access andfree culture), from a critical political economy perspective to consider its encroachment by capitalist corporations, but also how it advances radical alternatives to cognitive capitalism.Drawing on four case studies, Corporate Capitalism’s Use of Openness will add to discussion on open source software, open access content platforms, open access publishing, and open university courses. These otherwise disparate cases share two fundamental features: informational capitalist corporations base their successful business models on unpaid productive activities, play, attention, knowledge and labour, and do so crucially by resorting to ideological uses of concepts such as “openness”, “communities” and “sharing”.The authors present potential solutions and alternative regulations to counter these exploitative and alienating business models, and to foster digital knowledge commons, ranging from co-ops and commons-based peer production to state agencies' platforms. Their research and findings will appeal to students, academics and activists around the world in fields such as sociology, economy, media and communication, library and information science, political sciences and technology studies.

“Matching the rigour of the analysis with an extraordinary pedagogical capacity, the authors unveil all the arcana of the ‘openness’ capitalism model and digital labour. Essential for scholars and students across the social and economic sciences.” (Carlo Vercellone, Université de Paris 8, France)“This vital book is an objective and detailed assessment of the private capture of common value, concluding with an in-depth survey of what commons-friendly public authorities could do to defend the new 'common-wealth'.” (Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation, The Netherlands)“An outstanding analysis of how digital capital uses openness as principle of capital accumulation and exploitation.  A must-read for everyone who wants to understand what the internet and digital media are all about.” (Christian Fuchs, University of Westminster, UK)This book tackles the concept of openness (as in open source software, open access andfree culture), from a critical political economy perspective to consider its encroachment by capitalist corporations, but also how it advances radical alternatives to cognitive capitalism.Drawing on four case studies, Corporate Capitalism’s Use of Openness will add to discussion on open source software, open access content platforms, open access publishing, and open university courses. These otherwise disparate cases share two fundamental features: informational capitalist corporations base their successful business models on unpaid productive activities, play, attention, knowledge and labour, and do so crucially by resorting to ideological uses of concepts such as “openness”, “communities” and “sharing”.The authors present potential solutions and alternative regulations to counter these exploitative and alienating business models, and to foster digital knowledge commons, ranging from co-ops and commons-based peer production to state agencies' platforms. Their research and findings will appeal to students, academics and activists around the world in fields such as sociology, economy, media and communication, library and information science, political sciences and technology studies.

This book relates Wikipedians’ conceptions of their activities in terms of play, game, work and labour, to their views on Wikipedia and capitalism.

This book relates Wikipedians’ conceptions of their activities in terms of play, game, work and labour, to their views on Wikipedia and capitalism.

Sedan mitten 1990-talet har länderna i Latinamerika drabbats hårt av nyliberal politik. Regeringar och presidenter förlorar befolkningens förtroende eftersom det är Världsbanken och Internationella valutafonden som sätter den politiska dagordningen. Svaret har blivit att motståndet finns utanför det parlamentariska systemet, i olika sociala rörelser. Arwid Lund har rest i flera latinamerikanska länder, träffat de aktiva ur olika organisationer och tagit reda på vad som händer.