Capitalism can't liberate itself from its own conditions of possibility, but it can work out new imiserating and destructive fixes. It's up to socialists to provide an alternative. Business will promote techno fever dreams of human liberation from labor and nature as a cover for the most brutal forms of domination and expropriation. The robots might be coming for your jobs, but right now they are r and they are making your jobs a nightmare.
Featuring Nancy Fraser on why a total analysis of capitalism requires taking Marxism beyond a narrowly economistic view: what everyday labor exploitation requires from politics, care work, war-making, borders, appropriation of nature, sexism, racism, and more. Dan's 2018 interview from the archives.
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