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It’s the End of the Work as We Know It: End of the Work, Complete Automation, Robotic Anarcommunism

Pierpaolo Marrone

2020.7.17Humana Mente

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The rise of automation and robotics may lead to a new oppressive order as wage labor becomes scarce, threatening radical liberation ideologies like communism and anarcho-communism.

Abstract

In this article I explore some consequences of the relations between technique, capitalism and radical liberation ideologies (such as communism and anarcho-communism). My thesis is that the latter are going to rise to the extent that wage labor will become a scarce commodity. Through total automation, however, what may occur will not be the end of the reign of scarcity, but a new oppressive order.

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MARRONE, Pierpaolo. It’s the end of the work as we know it: End of the work, complete automation, robotic anarcommunism. Humana Mente, 2020, 13: 1–18.