This was one of the unlikely conclusions to be drawn from the UK Internet Summit held in London last week. Both Dave Stewart, the musician, and Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, the giant marketing multinational, invoked Karl Marx when discussing the impact of the net. Stewart, one half of now reformed band Eurythmics, said the internet was all about returning the means of production to the workers. Well returning it to those who work as pop stars or ad industry execs. Hardly the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Class war hits the net again.