"6. Does Marx think automation leads automatically to communism?
Absolutely not.
Automation creates conditions of possibility, not outcomes. Without collective control, machinery deepens domination:
“The instrument of labour, when it takes the form of a machine, immediately becomes a competitor of the worker himself.” — Capital, Vol. I, ch. 15, sec. 5 (Penguin ed., p. ~557)
Nothing about technological progress guarantees emancipation.
7. How is this relevant to AI today?
Marx’s framework asks:
Who owns the systems?
Who controls deployment?
Who captures the surplus?
Whose labor is displaced, deskilled, or intensified?
AI, like machinery in Marx’s time, is social knowledge frozen into capital. The political question is not whether it exists, but under what relations."
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