Lika Rodin 1
Robo-Revolution: A Marxist Approach to Social Uprising in the High-Tech Age
2019,
vol. 18,
No. 3,
pp. 224–244
[issue contents]
With the increasing role of technological agents in contemporary society, questions surrounding the future of so-cio-economic organization are intensely debated. A variety of predictions have been made, ranging from conservative views that emphasize the gradual integration of techno-actors into human social collectives to radical outlooks that assume the inevitability of a dramatic historic break. This study employs the method of simulation, exploring the on-going path towards automation with the help of classical Marxism. It seeks to understand whether robots and artificial intelligence (AI) might become new value producers and a revolutionary social class. As demonstrated, the continuity of capitalist relationships may facilitate the formation of new social groups and recast class-based political agendas.
Keywords:
humanoid robots;
artificial intelligence (AI);
technological singularity;
trans-humanism;
alienation;
The Law of the Tendency of the Rate to Profit to Fall
Citation:
Rodin L. (2019) Robo-Revolution: A Marxist Approach to Social Uprising in the High-Tech Age [Robo-Revolution: A Marxist Approach to Social Uprising in the High-Tech Age]. The Russian Sociological Review, vol. 18, no 3, pp. 106-126 (in Russian)