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This chapter begins with a democratic socialist critique of the mainstream neoclassical reading of Hardin’s famous tale of the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’. Then, it considers the neoliberal-led commodification of academic knowledge and counter projects of the ‘Public Digital University’ and ‘knowledge socialism’ as a springboard for examining the broader context of the neoliberal-led commodification of the immaterial world and resulting unstable and unsustainable societal outcomes. Discussion concentrates first on political and economic consequences of privatised regulation of the global information commons that I examine in relation to the democratic ideal of a well-formed global virtual civil society. Following on, this chapter turns to examine globally unstable economic effects of capitalism’s uneven development and the limitations of existing socialist critiques. The final section links ‘cosmopolitan democracy’ with a ‘world knowledge bank’ as key features of a democratic socialist alternative to the neoliberal model of development.
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Neilson, D. (2020). The Democratic Socialisation of Knowledge: Integral to an Alternative to the Neoliberal Model of Development. In: Peters, M.A., Besley, T., Jandrić, P., Zhu, X. (eds) Knowledge Socialism. East-West Dialogues in Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8126-3_8
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