Occupy Marx Street?

I wonder what Karl Marx would say about the #Occupy movement. On Saturday, I was in San Francisco/Oakland/Berkeley, and there were signs for local Occupy protests in each of those places. I don't actually see Oakland as a financial center for the country, but the mere presence of a protest shows how widespread the rise up against what Marx might call bourgeoise oppressors has become.

Being interested in this sort of thing, I was very excited when I began reading Cyber-Marx and came across this lovely passage:

The unleashing of computerization, telecommujnications, and genetic engineering within a context of general commodification is bringing massive crises of technological unemployment, corporate monopolization of culture, privatiztion of bodies of knowledge vital for human well-being and survival, and, ultimately, market-driven transformations of humanity's very species-being. In response to these developments are emerging new forms of resistance and counterinitiative. And insofar asthe force with which these movements collide is capitalism--perhaps  a post-Fordist, postmodern, informational capitalism, but capitalism nonetheless, and not some postindustrial society that has transcended commodification--Marx's work can continue to provide participants in these struggles a vital source of insights.

Technological developments are allowing new forms of resistance and counterinitiative to emerge. I need to do some more research on this, but from what I saw, the whole Occupy Wall Street protest began as a activity by Anonymous, the hacker/mischief-maker collective. Their @AnonOps Twitter channel was the unofficial way much of the early information about these protests were disseminated and organized. Anonymous works well as an example of the proletariat using emerging technology to effectively activate against the modern aristocracy. There isn't any central leadership, allowing strong ideas to simply command attention and support organically. This does lead to a sort of "mob rule" at times, but for the most part, the organization has been very effective in executing attacks on the ruling classes.

I'm not sure what Marx would say about this exacty, but I think it's incredible the supposedly-discounted Marx and his theories actually have plenty of application in the new user-driven world of technology.

There are a lot more factors that go into this, I know--organizing on Facebook requires use of Facebook, one of these hegemonic institutions--but I think it's still an application of Marx's theories. I wrote this a few days before class just to make sure I got it done, and I'm eager to see what else Dyer-Witheford has to say about Marx in the modern technological world.