[D66] Progress without People: In Defense of LUDDISM

[R.O.]

There is a war on, but only one side is armed: this is the essence of 
the technology question today. On the one side is private capital, 
scientized and subsidized, mobile and global, and now heavily armed with 
military-spawned command, control, and communication tech­nologies. 
Empowered by the second industrial revolution, capital is moving 
decisively now to enlarge and consolidate the social domi­nance it 
secured in the first. In the face of a steadily declining rate of 
profit, escalating conflict, and intensifying competition, those who 
already hold the world hos­tage to their narrow interests are 
undertaking once again to restruc­ture the international economy and the 
patterns of production to their advantage. Thus, with the new technology 
as a weapon, they steadily advance upon all remaining vestiges of worker 
autonomy, skill, organization, and power in the quest for more potent 
vehicles of investment and exploitation. And, with the new technology as 
their symbol, they launch a multimedia cultural offensive designed to 
rekindle confidence in "progress." As their extortionist tactics daily 
diminish the wealth of nations, they announce anew the optimistic 
promises of technological deliverance and salvation through science.

On 29-07-2020 20:42, R.O. wrote:
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