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socialist thinking on technology

This kind of gamification promises solutions to inequality that will come faster and more efficiently than governments can deliver them by “channelizing user agency.” Inequality? There’s an app for that!

Technophobia might seem to be the only response from the Left. For every injustice, we are p…

—p.14 Ours To Master Technology and Socialist Strategy (13) by Paul Heideman
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the left argument for UBI

[...] Winning a share of the fruits of automation for the rest of us requires victory at the level of the state rather than the individual workplace.

This could be done through a universal basic income, a minimum payment guaranteed to all citizens completely independent of work. If pushed by pr…

—p.9 Ours to Master (6) by Jacobin
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the modern figure of the Luddite

The original Luddites are similarly misunderstood. As Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm wrote in a 1952 article, machine breaking was a common tactic of labor resistance during the Industrial Revolution. Rather than directing their anger at technology per se, workers broke machines “as a means of coe…

—p.7 Ours to Master (6) by Jacobin
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