The Marxian version of the ideal also was predicated on technology, and also business cycles. It said, as technology brings increased productivity, and the replacement of labor with it, it would lead to these recessionary cycles caused by excess production. It's only a matter of time now before we realized these modes of production need to be replaced by something centralized, where the laws (the logic) of the free market lead to the destruction of the free market.
And then the 1960's Marxists: we would repurpose these machines to fulfill our needs that require labor, and we would now have the free time to frolic, fornicate and make art. A New Man would be created, one not an outgrowth of the competitive free market environment.
Sure.
We've had some time to let this play out and it's quite obviously heading in the opposite direction. We might have drones and magic devices where we can talk to each other face to face in real time, but we're all over-stressed, over-worked, over-monitored and as competitive as ever.
I don't see us laying in fields in the Sun and making art.
Although I might've seen something like that in a sponsored ad on Instagram.
The Marxian version of the ideal also was predicated on technology, and also business cycles. It said, as technology brings increased productivity, and the replacement of labor with it, it would lead to these recessionary cycles caused by excess production. It's only a matter of time now before we realized these modes of production need to be replaced by something centralized, where the laws (the logic) of the free market lead to the destruction of the free market.
And then the 1960's Marxists: we would repurpose these machines to fulfill our needs that require labor, and we would now have the free time to frolic, fornicate and make art. A New Man would be created, one not an outgrowth of the competitive free market environment.
Sure.
We've had some time to let this play out and it's quite obviously heading in the opposite direction. We might have drones and magic devices where we can talk to each other face to face in real time, but we're all over-stressed, over-worked, over-monitored and as competitive as ever.
I don't see us laying in fields in the Sun and making art.
Although I might've seen something like that in a sponsored ad on Instagram.