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Marx actually has a bit about this: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#:~:text=bump%20of%20Christianity.-,C.%20Intensification%20of%20
by maxbendick 2mo ago
Marx actually has a bit about this: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#:~:text=bump%20of%20Christianity.-,C.%20Intensification%20of%20Labour,-The%20immoderate%20lengthening https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm...
The most interesting point here is relating machine speed to intensity. Plenty of tech folks are both working longer hours and overseeing more responsibilities thanks to AI. There are other factors at play though (interest rates and AI-addiction, for two).
- appreciatorBus 2mo ago[flagged]
- ihm 2mo agoWhat part of Marx's work do you think has been disproven?
- shellkr 2mo agoThis point could be made on every ideology.. Capitalism in essence is pretty gruesome too. The enlightenment, american and french revolutions and the labor movement was stuff that moved the pin in the right direction.
- maxbendick 2mo agoMarx builds on Smith. Would you agree then that Adam Smith is disproven even more and responsible for far more starvation? That would be ridiculous.
- mekael 2mo agoThere’s communism the theoretical idea and “communism” the application. The twentieth century was neither, but just authoritarianism wearing a trench-coat.
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