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You ever have one of those enlightening moments? You’ll be staring at the carton of milk in the morning trying to figure out if you really want Milk or OJ, and then it hits you, a mind blowing revelation? Well maybe not the Milk, but it could honestly be anything.

For me it was this morning on my commute to work. I’m sitting at a traffic light and staring at a bumper sticker that says “I would of chose Marx over Bush”. I have no idea why that triggered my thought process on the comparison to the Web as we see it today, but strangely enough, here I am, writing a blog entry about it.
So what am I talking about? Well if you aren’t familiar with what Socialism is, or you “think” you know what it is, I urge you to take a minute and hop over to Wikipedia and read this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism . I’ve found that most people have absolutely no idea what the backend of Socialism is and as a result they offer their irrelevant and ignorant comments towards a subject that they’re completely oblivious to.

Getting that out the way, I’m talking about socialism as it was designed to be. I’m not talking about Communist Russia or China or any of those countries. I’m speaking about the brilliance of Karl Marx’s vision in a theory that could not be achieved as it defied human nature. It was simply one of those “Wow” things on paper, and then the model just crashed and burned. Marx forgot to include the psychological processes of the human mind in his theory which caused for the theory’s downfall in practice.

So what are the principles of it…

Consider a very bare and simple example, where everyone on your block works at a factory for free, and where everyone puts in a helping hand and aside from the basic needs of humans, they’re not overly compensated. There’s obviously those people who do little to nothing, and then there’s those people who do EVERYTHING and yes, each person’s compensation is exactly the same. (I know I’m reaching…bare with me.)

Now let’s consider a website like “Wikipedia”. Everyone who uses the site has the choice to place their input in an organized format. The changes are monitored and millions of people worldwide have access to collaboratively producing a “product”, of which is a virtual encyclopedia. Some people do nothing. In fact, most people leach the information that they’re given for free, with no effort to contribute back to the community; however, on the other side of the spectrum we have scholars who write information daily and contribute massive amounts of information that not only aid the community, but help Wikipedia as an organization prosper.

And in return? The content. In return for contributing some or all of the articles listed in Wikipedia’s database…we as a community receive the information free of charge. Yes, we as a community…the scholars and the leaches, all get the exact same thing.

What’s that equate to? Seems pretty obvious to me; however, unlike the typical practice of Socialism, this works. For some reason, whatever it is, the human dependencies and psychological preventions that conflict with utilizing Socialism as a prattice for daily life, work on the internet.

Does ego not get in the way on the internet? For anyone who’s ever used it before, you know that’s simply not the case as every other user seems to be an egotistical psycho…
I have no explanation for it, anyone else?