They did not have the insight. It does not deal with our desire for modernism. People cannot wrestle with the idea that there are times when, even with the crisis theory provided my Marx, they're still our tools and still another day.
I'll have to get out of this baby leftist mindset and see that how others cannot get their education from streamers and microbloggers. I can't learn from a Laggard, they can't be reached. So to stay in sync with myself.
First volume of capital I've tried to read. Try and get a correct interpretation, yet with this postmodern quote-mining wave of hyperreality. I'll go with this one.
Some retweets.
@segyges.bsky.social from this thread
"the artisans are behaving like politically destructive rent-seekers and trying to reduce automation instead of seeking meaningful political change concerning ownership of capital and allocation of resources" is also orthodox marxist
the entire idea of fixed capital is that workers individually do not necessarily own the means of production; like, whether or not they morally should own their output, they do not, that is not how the thing works, and the social arrangement for large factories makes it complex to even try to do
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i do think however that marx is correct on the basic points of
1) automation is good
2) luddism is bad
3) the problem is who controls the automation, and the wealth created by it, and who gets left out
4) the solution ultimately has to be the power of the state"
@bitesu.kawaii.social"the luddites were not pro workers rights they were not a labor movement they were artisans and workshop owners and guild members who were financially threatened by industry because factories could produce textiles far cheaper than their poorly paid apprentices stop with this ahistorical nonsense
they were reactionaries who were opposed to progress because their own private enterprises were outcompeted by a new mode of production. "pro workers rights" like they weren't all guild artisans who had their own sweatshops where apprentices did all of the work
please read some actual theory and actual history for gods sakes or you're going to fall back into the trap of carrying water for petit bourgeois reactionaries impeding progress. not a single marxist with two brain cells to rub together is going to say "we have to go back before capitalism " cause that's the whole point!! new modes of production and new modes of social organization pave the way forward to newer yet modes of production and organization, some of which can even facilitate socialism (like industrial modes of organization. for example)"
(Oh and Ned Ludd ain't real, Brian Merchant is doing revisionist history.)
So Industrial mode of production =/= Artisinal Mode of production. That's the matter of the modernisation that we will do, moving forward. Reading with literature and the textbook
So the answer is.
Along with the pull of plopyright shifts us to atomised alienation, resist the pulse! Gift economies, Pro bono, Creative commons licensing as alternatives.
Support Ghostwork and Turkpoticon and ignore the clown dogmatism at microbloggers.
They're basically going to go nowhere, like selfish Ayn Ryandists, and Male supremacist movement that happened within 2016 and then disappeared into obscurity. Ron Paul Supporters too! - It all comes around.
I don't even identify as a Marxist doctrinaire given how diverse my thought is with sociology'n all economical analytic thought, the way the west with it's movement are silly.
I will read more literature and textbooks on automation, yet we must shift our automation to replacement to reassembling, revolting along with the anti-trust of monopoly.
I Shall end with a quote from the Lorax
The Lorax
"What do you want? Shut down the factories? Make the workers lose all their jobs?"
"You have your point, Yet I don't know the answer" ~ Dr Suess, Despite my many disagreements with him. What an interesting paradox of handling our growth of our society, hmm?