Marx vs. Moglen

Eben Moglen's The dotCommunist Manifesto is an interesting play off of Karl Marx's (in)famous Communist Manifesto. In Moglen's article, he argues that the time has come for a new revolution of the new proletariat of the digital age, in which free information would reign and private (intellecutual) property would be abolished. Moglen calls it, "the revolution that liberates the human mind" (9).

Now, while Moglen's argument, like Marx's original Communist Manifesto, seems great in concept, he, like Marx, is arguing for a very extreme change in the realm of IP. (Although, Moglen probably did this on purpose to better emulate Marx). But the problem for both Marx and Moglen that keeps such drastic revolutions from happening (or at least, succeeding) is the dominant pervailing ideologies on IP & how it should be treated. For most, Moglen's points are too extreme for enough people to adopt whole-heartedly to incite this "revolution." So while Moglen presents his thoughts in an interesting and creative way, like the original Communist Manifesto, the current reigning ideology will probably keep such a drastic revolution from ever happening--although it may cause some minor changes.