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'The instrument of labour strikes down the labourer.' Marx on machinery is worth reading

'The instrument of labour strikes down the labourer.' Marx on machinery is worth reading | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

The left “needs to abandon its mythology of the ‘liberation of the productive forces’”, Ned argues. “Instead of that narrative of progress, we need to realise that industrialism is a 200-year-old bubble that is beginning to burst.”

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The Sparks of Rebellion - by Chris Hedges

The Sparks of Rebellion - by Chris Hedges | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

I am reading and rereading the debates among some of the great radical thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries about the mechanisms of social change. These debates were not academic. They were frantic searches for the triggers of revolt.

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Robert Skidelsky: Death To Machines?

Robert Skidelsky: Death To Machines? | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Professor Robert Skidelsky looks at the dawn of a second machine age and explores the lessons of the Luddites for today's economy.
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