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Abstract
This paper challenges antiwork techno-utopias praising the supposedly liberating potential of capital productive forces and advocating for an accelerated expansion of labour-saving technologies before implementing a postcapitalist world built upon such technological development. The premises of those technoreveries are thus inspected along with the dangers and limitations of their implementation. Marx's view of productive forces is also examined, and some reflections are offered on the fettering thesis and the socialist goal of human enhancement.
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1 As cited in Bernes, “The Belly of the Revolution,” 331–32.
2 Marx, A Contribution to the Critique, 263.
3 Marx, Capital, 929.
4 Löwy, “Marx, Engels, and Ecology,” 13.
5 Marx, Economic Manuscript of 1864–1865, 368.
6 Srnicek and Williams, Inventing the Future, 176.
7 Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism.
8 Mason, Postcapitalism.
9 Foster and Clark, The Robbery of Nature.
10 Srnicek and Williams, Inventing the Future, 109.
11 Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism.
12 Mason, Postcapitalism.
13 Noble, Forces of Production, 42.
14 Mason, Postcapitalism.
15 Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism.
16 Mason, Postcapitalism.
17 Srnicek and Williams, Inventing the Future.
18 Mason, Postcapitalism, 191.
19 Tomba, “Pre-Capitalist Forms,” 399.
20 Mason, Postcapitalism.
21 Smith, Imperialism, 236–40, 274.
22 Ajl, A People’s Green New Deal, 78.
23 Smith, Imperialism, 273.
24 Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism, 193.
25 Katz, Dependency Theory, 144–45.
26 Katz, Dependency Theory, 7.
27 Besancenot and Löwy, Che Guevara, 57–77.
28 See Funes-Monzote, Nuestro viaje a la Luna.
29 Author’s translation, Castro, “Discurso.”
30 Hanon, “Cuba, Agriculture,” 206.
31 Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism.
32 See Funes-Mozonte, Nuestro viaje a la Luna.
33 Hanon, “Moishe Postone,” 39.
34 Mason, Postcapitalism, 123–28; Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism, 51–52.
35 Marx, Capital, 548.
36 Marx, Capital, 614.
37 Marx, Capital, 638.
38 Marx, Grundrisse, 297.
39 Marx, Economic Manuscripts 1861–1863, vol. 33, 488–89.
40 Marx, Economic Manuscripts 1861–1864, vol. 34, 34.
41 Marx, Economic Manuscripts 1861–1863, vol. 33, 498.
42 Mason, Postcapitalism.
43 Marx, Economic Manuscripts 1861–1863, vol. 33, 489.
44 Marx, Economic Manuscripts 1861–1863, vol. 33, 491.
45 Campbell, “Competition,” 120.
46 Marx, Economic Manuscripts 1861–1863, vol. 33, 144, 368, 381; Economic Manuscript of 1864–1865, 372.
47 Löwy, “Marx, Engels, and Ecology,” 13.
48 Tomba “Pre-Capitalist Forms,” 400.
49 Marx, Grundrisse.
50 See Postone, Time, Labor, and Social Domination.
51 See Marx, Economic Manuscripts 1861–1863, vol. 33, 339–42.
52 Marx, Grundrisse, 694.
53 Noble, Forces of Production.
54 See Marx, Capital, “Results of the Immediate Process of Production.”
55 Marx, Economic Manuscripts 1861–1864, vol. 34, 441.
56 Marx, Economic Manuscripts 1861–1863, vol. 33, 38.
57 Bernes, “The Belly of the Revolution,” 334.
58 Nicholls and Altieri, “Conventional Agricultural.”
59 Ajl, A People’s Green New Deal; Foster and Clark, The Robbery of Nature.
60 Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism, 79.
61 Bernes, “The Belly of the Revolution,” 350.
62 Ajl, A People’s Green New Deal.
63 Bernes, “The Belly of the Revolution,” 344–51.
64 Foster and Clark, The Robbery of Nature, 147.
65 Foster and Clark, The Robbery of Nature.
66 Lewontin, “The Maturing of Capitalist Agriculture.”
67 On ideal subsumption, see Murray, The Mismeasure of Wealth.
68 Lewontin, “The Maturing of Capitalist Agriculture.”
69 Srnicek and Williams, Inventing the Future, 116.
70 Renault, “Émanciper le travail.”
71 Mason, Postcapitalism.
72 See Marx, Economic Manuscripts 1861–1863, vol. 33.
73 See Marx, Capital.
74 See Marx, Economic Manuscript of 1864–1865.
75 Mason, Postcapitalism.
76 Marx, Economic Manuscripts 1861–1863, vol. 31.
77 See Marx, Capital.
78 Ajl, A People’s Green New Deal, 114, 123.
79 Marx, Capital, 579–80.
80 Funes-Monzote, “Azúcar, deforestación.”
81 Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism.
82 Mason, Postcapitalism; Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism.
83 Jerez, Garcés and Torres, “Lithium extractivism.”
84 Ajl, A People’s Green New Deal.
85 Lebowitz, “What Is Socialism,” 26.
86 Bernes, “The Belly of the Revolution,” 333.
87 Marx, Grundrisse, 611.
88 Foster and Clark, The Robbery of Nature.
89 Hanon, “Work Emancipation,” 222; Murray, The Mismeasure of Wealth, 314; Bernes, “The Belly of the Revolution,” 338; Beech, Art and Postcapitalism.
90 Murray, The Mismeasure of Wealth, 314.
91 Bernes, “The Belly of the Revolution,” 338.
92 Beech, Art and Postcapitalism.
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Ingrid Hanon
Ingrid Hanon is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand.