Hundreds of economists warn that artificial intelligence could displace millions of workers, but their petition mistakes a ruling-class offensive for a technical oversight. AI is already being used to reduce workforces, intensify surveillance, automate discipline, exclude applicants, restrict public benefits, and strengthen military and counterinsurgency systems. The real danger is not that machines may escape human control, but that monopoly capital is using them to reduce its dependence on labor while expanding the apparatus needed to manage those it renders surplus. Against this technofascist future, workers are organizing to seize control over deployment, data, productivity, and power.
Of Rope and Revolution: The Thug, the Lumpen, and the World That Made Them
When labor is outlawed and life is disposable, strangulation becomes political economy By Pablo Katari | Weaponized Information | August 1, 2025 I. Of Beggars and Bandits: The Specter Beneath Civilization History, when written by the victorious pickpockets of the world-market, is quick to condemn those who steal outside its formal registers. And so we... Continue Reading →