In a message dated 12/28/2010 5:14:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, frankied...@yahoo.com writes:
http://www.communistrobot.com/index.php?page=&nav=1&article=1 COMMUNIST ROBOT "....The entire world, all of humanity, can be elevated to live a life of luxury with robots doing all the industrial labor. With menial labor taken care of, education and creative endeavors would become paramount, freeing humanity to develop its greatest faculty: the human mind. This social reform into a utopian state is only possible with the proper implementation of robots. It should be the goal of every able minded individual to curve the world towards this robot revolution. Even before robotic technology reaches economic viability social reform is needed to insure that people know the benefits of robotic industrialization. This is a call for humanity to advance, just as we've advanced from caves to homes, as we've risen out of feudalism and forged Democracy, as we've gone from manpower to horse power to machine power. It is time for a new age, the culmination of everything learned and done before it, and the end of human labor. Oppression, inequity, war, poverty, these can be things of the past with the proper implementation of robotic industrialization. The full realization of humanity is upon us, it is time to advance! " Comment Interesting site. Since mass production of "Entering An Epoch of Social Revolution" in 1991/93, the issue of the revolution in the means of production ("communist robots") has been presented as the social consequence of a qualitatively new technology regime applied to all areas of social production. Capital's drive for maximum profits has led to the introduction of a revolutionary new means of production, thus opening up an era of social revolution. Previous technological advances were labor-saving. From capitalism's earliest beginnings in the textile factories of England to its domination of the global society, each advance in the industrial revolution uprooted the old mode of production and grew the industrial working class world wide as serfs were converted into modern proletarians. Although the path of the industrial revolution was marked by horrible cyclical economic crisis and imperial wars of plunder, earth completed its historic transition from agrarian based society to machine based society and a working class - industrial proletariat, arose conforming to the new technology regime. Hundreds of million were brought into the industrial production of commodities. This is not the case today with the new revolution in the means of production. Electronic technology in production replaces labor and detaches ever increasing layers of the old industrial working class as activity producer/consumers in the new economy. Computerized production and advanced robotics lowers labor costs by replacing human labor with robots and with computer technology that controls and operates machinery. During the curve of the industrial revolution labor was augmented by machinery and the automaton (automatic machine or automation) and the agricultural worker was converted into an industrial worker. Without increasingly less labor costs to the capitalists, robots on the assembly line work more efficiently than workers, and computer-operated tool and die makers are faster and more accurate than skilled mechanists. Labor is being eliminated from production, and thus the source of value and surplus value is being eliminated. We are experiencing the first world wide crisis of capital, universally recognized as a "jobless recovery." These revolutionary new means of production not only does not grow the working class but cause an irreparable breach in the process of buying and selling that is essential to bourgeois commodity production - capitalism. Robots and computer-operated machinery aren't paid wages and don't buy anything; they produce but they don't consume. And, workers replaced by these means of production don't have paychecks. The nexus of the producer/consumer as wage earner is being burst asunder. When workers are unable to buy, the capitalist is unable to realize a profit. The overall impact of the new technology is to drive the rate of surplus value down to zero. As electronics eliminates human labor, it destroys the source of all value, and thus ends a system of production and distribution based on the exploitation of human labor power. Zero rate of profit and zero value of human labor power is the trajectory marking the end of the capitalist system of production and distribution, and thus the end of the "value producing system" as the means for determining what is produced and consumed. Capitalism - bourgeois commodity production has come to its historic end. Something new is struggling to be born. Only people can determine whether that abundance made possible by a new technology will be owned by a handful of capitalists, or by, and for, the good of the community as a whole. Waistline _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list Marxist-Leninist-List@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list
