Join 📚Jof’S Book Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Jophin's read, .
Capitalism introduces a historically unique insecurity at the most fundamental level of social reproduction, and for this reason the state has to assume the task of administering the life of the population. __Since the aim of capitalist production is the accumulation of wealth in its monetary form rather than the fulfilment of human needs, capitalist production frequently leads to the undermining of the life of the workers on whose lives it ultimately depends.__
Mute Compulsion
Søren Mau
Instead of presupposing a fully automated economy and imagining the possibilities for a better and freer world created out of it, we could begin from a world of generalized human dignity, and then consider the technical changes needed to realize that world.
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
Since there is little control over public expression of ideas (though there is plenty of control over the resources with which to communicate those ideas e.g. access to television, university tenure, etc.), the formulation of the ideas themselves must be constrained. In other words, __what is thinkable must be controlled so that when people manifest their rights of expression they will rarely express thoughts subversive to defining social relations.__
Liberating Theory
Michael Albert, Holly Sklar
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise