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In his latest book, Capital from Zero, Japanese Marxist scholar Kohei Saito provides an accessible and relevant reading of Karl Marx’s magnum opus, Capital (1867–94). lareviewofbooks.org/article/kohe...

Capitalism’s ‘Metabolic Rift’ | Los Angeles Review of BooksKohei Saito’s new book offers a compelling account of Marx’s development as an ecosocialist thinker.lareviewofbooks.org
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Ashley Dawson observes New York’s subway cars becoming increasingly festooned with ads from obscure AI companies, each proclaiming their respective time-saving benefits to the tired gig workers who ride it home each day.

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As Dawson emphasizes, our current world, AI-ad-cluttered and all, lies on the precipice of a massive transformation in how work is done and who does it.

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Can we really expect AI to relieve the exhausted of the earth of their material and affective burdens? Dawson finds Saito’s answer to be a resounding no: “the promise that technological advances like AI and robotics will enable workers to enjoy more freedoms is an enduring lie.”

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To strengthen Saito’s proposed movement of “degrowth communism,” Dawson suggests including the theoretical tools of racial capitalism and social reproduction to engage with a more holistic account of the global working class.

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“We desperately need a thoroughgoing and substantial redefinition of the working class to include care work and social reproduction, a redefinition that includes both the waged and the unwaged.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/kohe...