I think I’ll try and get to grip with this, but Marx is very hard read. I am also particularly interested in his views on General Intellect, it seems he agrees that software should be free, but then he also thought that workers should run the state. The fragment on machines is part of the Grundrisse. Here are my notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
I revisited this page in May 25, pushed by my thinking on LLMs\/AI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fragment is available on the way back machine<\/a> and mirrored on my google drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is also available at Chapter 13 of the Grundrisse<\/a> on marxists.com and at this link, “General Intellect” again from the autonomous university<\/a> also on the wayback machine. Further copies are at http:\/\/thenewobjectivity.com\/pdf\/marx.pdf<\/a> and http:\/\/celunde.poweredbyclear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/General-intellect.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n When making my storify, the next evolution of capitalism<\/a>, , I came across this, “What the hell … is the fragment on machines”<\/a> by Nate Hawthorne<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was pointed at this recently,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mason, in post capitalism, mentions it. It’s indexed under General Intellect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I found this<\/a> at tendancecoatsy, which while it’s main purpose seems to be having a laugh at the proponents of the worker’s bomb does look at some of the theory proposing a post proletariat productive class, but not why it’s happening and with some distaste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Martin Thomas, edited a pamphlet called, Automation and the working class<\/a>, depending on your edition, they reproduce the fragment on page 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Phil Burton Cartledge writes about it and points to one of his sources,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Phil says,<\/p>\n\n\n\n … this<\/acronym> is a problem because the average amount of what Marx calls socially necessary labour<\/a> by humans that goes into a commodity is the basis of its value: it is the key lynchpin of how capitalism works. Therefore capital’s drive to raise the rate of exploitation, to increase its share of surplus value is, over the long-term, driving value down. If production becomes entirely automated then no labour time is necessary, and value itself collapses. The problem is as automation gathers pace, so immaterial labour and its production of intangible commodities involves an acceleration of this decline of value.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Phil BC in his writing points at Hardt & Negri’s Empire trilogy, (Empire, Multitude and Commonwealth) and I link to Harvard University Press’s review collection<\/a> and also at\u00a0Yann Moulier Boutang’s Cognitive Capitalism. <\/p>\n\n\n\nCommentaries<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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