luckily as an anarchist, i know that technology is the social context in which it is deployed, and the luddites were literally right, even if they were rebelling against the machinery of history itself.

the points about how "normal" computer use is also profoundly wasteful are correct tho.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

luckily as an anarchist, i know that technology is the social context in which it is deployed, and the luddites were literally right, even if they were rebelling against the machinery of history itself.

Can you expand on this a bit? I always found Luddites to be reactionary, I mean obviously they had a right to be pissed but their conclusions and praxis were wrong.

[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

i've seen this take from a lot of marxists. it's a Principled Opposition to luddism

This is something I find rather strange as well. As a Marxist, one should be more than skeptical about the bourgeois ideology of their "civilsing mission" of spreading "progress" and "technology" treating them as reified objects rather than emergent properties of historical processes and social networks of production respectively.

Both of the latter (processes and networks) are things that the bourgeoise advances, but for its own uses and needs.

I cannot take any marxist seriously when they start drooling over the bouegeoise's attempts at creating a bourgeois paradise.

It's like some people get accused of being against "progress", to which they take great offense, so they start overcompensating.