Artificial Intelligence
Ian, Nico, Matt, Chas and Rudy join for a general discussion on artificial intelligence. They cover the early origins of AI as a field, with …
automation
Why Machines Don’t Create Value
Ian Wright defends Marx’s theory of surplus-value and its claim that human labor is the ultimate cause of economic profit. In the topsy-turvy world of …
Post-Scarcity without a Fully-Automated World
Connor Harney reviews Aaron Benavav’s Automation and the Future of Work, a welcome intervention in a time where bourgeois utopian delusions about the future of …
Ending the Eternal Present: A Historical Materialist Account of the 1970s
The 1970s were a time of turmoil and transition. Connor Harney gives a Marxist account of this pivotal decade.  Nostalgia for the Past As …