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060 - The Human Use of Human Beings, Part 1

General Intellect Unit

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The Left's Argument for a New Social System

There's a bit of the, I mean, this reminded me of that flying cars and falling rate of profit essay. There's a little bit of that sort of like Marxist or communist argument for why bourgeois science cannot realize its objectives. This is a really common argument by socialists in the 20th, early 20th century. But there is some truth to it in that a change to technological acceleration, if picked up and used for the purposes of particular class does move history forward. Without that link up, it doesn't happen.

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