On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:35 PM, H LV <[email protected]> wrote: > The Precariat and Class Struggle By Guy Standing > > Abstract: The world economy is in the midst of a Global Transformation > that is producing a new global class structure. A new mass class is > emerging – the precariat – characterised by chronic uncertainty and > insecurity. Although the precariat is still a class-in-the-making, divided > within itself, its elements are united in rejecting old mainstream > political traditions. To become a transformative class, however, the > precariat needs to move beyond the primitive rebel stage manifested in 2011 > and become enough of a class-for-itself to be a power for change. This will > involve a struggle for redistribution of the key assets needed for a good > life in a good society in the twenty-first century –not the “means of > production”, but socioeconomic security, control of time, quality space, > knowledge (or education), financial knowledge and financial capital. > > http://www.guystanding.com/files/documents/Precariat_and_ > Class_Struggle_final_English.pdf >
This is just (yawn) one more fake 'post-marxist' analysis (of which there has been plenty: 'Post Modernism' being the exemplar of this genre). Dismissing the importance of those CENTRAL materialist concepts -- the Means and Mode of Production -- is a dead giveaway that this is just one more quasi-/pseudo-'scientific' analysis. With a suspect political-economic -- no doubt petit-bourgeois liberal -- agenda behind it, of course. > > > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Che <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:06 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2017/05/19/artificial-in >>> telligence-will-impact-professional-writing/ >>> >>> How Artificial Intelligence will impact professional writing >>> >> >> >> As I keep pointing out: such technological developments could only >> constitute a 'crisis' in a society where every Human being is NOT >> guaranteed a lifetime quality-of-life. And Capitalism -- being a system of >> institutionalized *artificial* scarcity, benefiting ONLY a tiny, >> self-interested elite -- IS that infernal society. >> >> Therefore we NEED and REQUIRE *Socialism* in order to advance as a >> species. >> >> But as things stand -- the U.S. Imperialists are working overtime to >> snuff us all, at the moment... >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> http://nypost.com/2017/08/29/artificial-intelligence-is-writ >>>> ing-the-next-game-of-thrones-book/ >>>> >>>> Artificial intelligence is writing the next ‘Game of Thrones’ book >>>> >>> >>> >> >
