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The General intellect (n.) is society's shared knowledge become a direct force of production — the point at which the conditions of social life fall under its control and are remade to fit it.
General intellect (n.) is society's shared knowledge, and Marx failed to foresee that it could itself be privatized — which is what the struggle over intellectual property is about.
The General intellect (n.) did not make exploitation meaningless, as Marx hoped; it made workers' potential uselessness a threat held over them.