Since its earliest days, capitalism has dominated the worker through, as Marx and Engels write in the Communist Manifesto, “the instrumentality of the machine.” But this process has never stood still and has undergone ceaseless transformations — from machine industry, to automation, to AI — each of them heightening the alienation and the exploitation of the worker. How do workers experience this and how do they resist, from the early labor struggles to today’s Hollywood or Amazon strikes? What would a real humanization of work look like?

Speaker: Damian Algabre

Damian Algabre is a Los Angeles resident who writes on capitalism, racism, queer culture, and Marxism and the author of “Writers Guild of America Strike: not just about pay, but human creativity,” The International Marxist-Humanist, June 22, 2023 https://imhojournal.org/articles/writers-guild-of-america-strike-not-just-about-pay-but-human-creativity/

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Suggested readings:

• Damian Algabre, “Automation: From Marx to Dunayevskaya and from Marcuse to Mason,” The International Marxist-Humanist, May 5, 2023 https://imhojournal.org/articles/automation-from-marx-to-dunayevskaya-and-from-marcuse-to-mason/
• Raya Dunayevskaya, “The ‘Automaton’ and the Worker,” in Philosophy and Revolution, pp. 68-76 https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Raya-Dunayevskaya-Philosophy-and-Revolution-From-Hegel-to-Sartre-and-from-Marx-to-Mao.pdf
• Paul Mason, “The End of Capitalism Has Begun,” Guardian, July 17, 2015  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/17/postcapitalism-end-of-capitalism-begun

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