Marxist economics
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole
- Karl Marx
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Uncertainty and instability fuel capitalism’s ever-deepening crisis
Fuelled by geopolitical shocks and the breakdown of globalisation, the world capitalist system is wracked with instability and uncertainty, which is itself contributing towards the economic crisis. What does this mean for the class struggle?
Artificial intelligence or artificial scarcity?
In the latest issue of The Communist, our readers expanded on the anarchic implementation of AI under capitalism. From the Apple-OpenAI split, to destructive data centres, to chaos in the workplace: capitalism is incapable of turning AI into a tool to improve our lives.
AI, data centres, and the quiet hum of revolution
From environmentally-damaging data centres, to the threat of unemployment, to alienating AI slop – widespread anger is building towards the tech bosses accelerating us towards a dystopian future. What is the revolutionary way forward?