“The Fragment on Machines”
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 2:59 am
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In the “Fragment” Marx imagines an economy in which the main role of machines is to produce, and the main role of people is to supervise them.
He was clear that, in such an economy, the main productive force would be information.
The productive power of such machines as the automated cotton-spinning machine, the telegraph and the steam locomotive did not depend on the amount of labour it took to produce them but on the state of social knowledge.
Organisation and knowledge, in other words, made a bigger contribution to productive power than the work of making and running the machines.
Welcome to 2016!
Where information, organisation and knowledge make a bigger contribution to productive power than the work of making and running the machines...which is done by slaves in China and Indochina.
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In the “Fragment” Marx imagines an economy in which the main role of machines is to produce, and the main role of people is to supervise them.
He was clear that, in such an economy, the main productive force would be information.
The productive power of such machines as the automated cotton-spinning machine, the telegraph and the steam locomotive did not depend on the amount of labour it took to produce them but on the state of social knowledge.
Organisation and knowledge, in other words, made a bigger contribution to productive power than the work of making and running the machines.
Welcome to 2016!
Where information, organisation and knowledge make a bigger contribution to productive power than the work of making and running the machines...which is done by slaves in China and Indochina.
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