Abstraction-06.

As the abstraction of private property was
extended to information, it produced the hacker
class as a class. Hackers must sell their capacity
for abstraction to a class that owns the means of
production, the vectoralist class -- the emergent
ruling class of our time. The vectorialist class is
waging an intensive struggle to dispossess hackers
of their intellectual property. Patents and
copyrights all end up in the hands, not of their
creators, but of the vectoralist class that owns
the means of realising the value of these
abstractions. The vectoralist class struggles to
monopolise abstraction. Hackers find themselves
dispossessed both individually, and as a class.
Hackers come piecemeal to struggle against the
particular forms in which abstraction is
commodified and made into the private property of
the vectoralist class. Hackers come to struggle
collectively against the usurious charges the
vectoralists extort for access to the information
that hackers collectively produce, but that
vectoralists collectively come to own. Hackers come
as a class to recognise their class interest is best
expressed through the struggle to free the
production of abstraction not just from the
particular fetters of this or that form of
property, but to abstract the form of property
itself.

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