Pure Marxism is a materialist religion and not a science. harry
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:01 AM, H LV <[email protected]> wrote: > Yawn. > > Harry > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 2:29 AM, Che <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> 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_Cla >>> ss_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 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
