alt Hacker NewsMarx pretty clearly envisions a future society where necessary labor is reduced to a minimum due to technology.
The fact that modern leftists are (often) anti-technology is puzzling.
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Modern leftists are the modern conservatives. You can watch it happening - 40 years later you have people with grey hair and beards reminiscing their times when they coded by hand. They will absolutely be the most conservative voting block to exist -- they will continue opposing technology.
Key there is future. I don't think he ever claimed such an automated communist utopia was the immediate progression after capitalism.
>The fact that modern leftists are (often) anti-technology is puzzling.
Not puzzling at all when the world has experience earth shattering advances in technology in the past 30-40 years, and the economic gains it has brought have not been reflected in similar reductions in labor for the workers. Why on earth would AI be any different than the cotton gin or the self checkout?
Maybe read the rest of Marx too, and not just that sentence.
The point is not whether or not we have technology but who controls it.