Automation is Overrated (1996 Marxist Edition)

Here’s an amusing aside from Harvey and Reed’s 1996 “The Culture of Poverty”:

A third form of contemporary class denial seeks refuge in the promise that a technological quick fix can eliminate persistent poverty. Of course, this is not the first time a technocratic myth has promised escape from the spiraling contradictions of capital. From Fourier’s phalanxes and Bentham’s workhouses of the last century, to the dreams of leisure-based societies in the American Century, capitalist culture has...